> The only reasons I'm not living in a stack of cardboard boxes for $1 rent are that it's illegal
replyMy initial reaction to reading this is not "oh great analogy", it's "please have higher standards for your quality of living"
You can go and live in cardboard boxes right now for free. Why aren't you? Being technically legal or not is besides the point - there are places where it is tolerated.
reply>You can go and live in cardboard boxes right now for free. Why aren't you?
replythis is why i try to avoid analogies whenever i can. we've cycled through like 3 different iterations of the analogy in 5 comments, just to land on this question.