My mother told me some things about life before the fall of Eastern European socialism back when I was a teen and knew nothing about politics. Among the things she mentioned as having been better back then was guaranteed housing and employment. It didn’t really strike me at that time because I lacked the understanding necessary to realize how important that was, but holy shit it hits different now.
When putting into perspective how bad it is to just get a roof over your head under our current conditions, I guess I can understand where the line of thinking parodied by the OP could come from. In comparison, getting a basic need met without going into a 20+ year debt appears too good to be true, so people start looking for a “catch”.
My mother told me some things about life before the fall of Eastern European socialism back when I was a teen and knew nothing about politics. Among the things she mentioned as having been better back then was guaranteed housing and employment. It didn’t really strike me at that time because I lacked the understanding necessary to realize how important that was, but holy shit it hits different now.
When putting into perspective how bad it is to just get a roof over your head under our current conditions, I guess I can understand where the line of thinking parodied by the OP could come from. In comparison, getting a basic need met without going into a 20+ year debt appears too good to be true, so people start looking for a “catch”.