When something is an economic asset but a psychological liability, like a house you hate but can’t afford to sell, it’s not the asset, you are. You don’t own it, it owns you. Middle class life is full of such antiassets.
Very unfortunate people also have antirelationships.
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also anti-identities: beliefs that feel costly to “sell” because they’ve defined you for so long — in the eyes of others and your self
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Special case of an antirelationship AND antiasset: with yourself as person and thing. I-it/I-thou with self.
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Yikes. This guy I used to know in SFO lived in a van but owned a penthouse he had simply been given by a grateful person he had cared for while dying. He told me, never get a couch. A couch is root of all domestification.



