50-year mortgages. 150-month car loans. Subscriptions locked on everything. Payment plans for the smallest purchases. It's a system designed to strip ownership away. Less ownership means less freedom, less control, less actual stake in what you claim to have. The narrative is clear—rent everything, own nothing, smile through it. But there's an alternative. When you hold assets directly without intermediaries, when transactions settle in your hands rather than some corporation's ledger, ownership actually means something again. That's the real shift happening beneath the surface.