In understand your point. It costs money to buy, sell, and broker house/mortgage. People have to live in their houses (in a normal economy) for like 3-5 years before even making a break even point on home. Just bought my first house and we're drowning in interest at the moment. Rents will fall faster when interes rates change than we will be able to refi. BUT it'll be better for us in the long run.

as a cable technician I feel this to the bones.

I pay 99.95 a month for 50 megs gotta love the local phone cmpny

Background checks to buy scrap aluminum or lol... beer?

You can technically also 3D print a 3D printer.

A certain amount passes through anyway, but how much water has to be let through a dam to charge a car?