• bstix@feddit.dk
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    2 hours ago

    It’s because your landlord never paid for it. The bank did. You’re paying the interest on his loan.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      1 hour ago

      They mean if they sold it now they’d have 50 years of rent now, instead of waiting 50 years to accumulate that amount. All that money now is worth more then getting it later.