{"id":51,"date":"2002-02-17T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2002-02-17T22:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-11-29T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T06:15:11","slug":"specialize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"specialize!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>on Samizdata, Brian Micklethwait writes <a href=http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/000840.html>In praise of renting and to hell with owning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn general, the relationship between owning-or-renting and freedom is surely the opposite of what it is so often said to be by British Conservatives.  Renting equals freedom, not owning.  Most home &#8220;owners&#8221; in Britain are about as free as a bird locked in a cage .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the appeals of nanotechnology, for me, is the possibility of comfortable homelessness: if I can wear a self-fitting <a href=\"http:\/\/e-drexler.com\/d\/06\/00\/EOC\/EOC_Chapter_6.html#section02of04\">smartsuit<\/a> that contains my library and computer, and automatically scrubs my skin as appropriate, what do I want a house for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on Samizdata, Brian Micklethwait writes In praise of renting and to hell with owning: In general, the relationship between owning-or-renting and freedom is surely the opposite of what it is so often said to be by British Conservatives. Renting equals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=51\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-futures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}