The Down Payment

How We Bought the Walls That Buried Us

1. Introduction: The Heart Rate Monitor
2. Part I: The Myth of the Quarter-Acre Paradise
3. Chapter 1: The Single-Income Soul
4. Data Pulse I: The Decoupling
5. Chapter 2: The Finite Monster
6. Chapter 3: The Freedom of Boredom
7. Part II: The Global Bait and Switch
8. Chapter 4: The Multi-Income Trap
9. Chapter 5: Financializing the Floorboards
10. Chapter 6: The Infinite Debt
11. Chapter 7: The Death of Risk
12. Part III: The Soul Extraction
13. Chapter 8: Aesthetic Numbness and the Staging Ground
14. Chapter 9: The Hustle as Sedative
15. Chapter 10: Generational Amnesia
16. Conclusion: The Display Case
17. Coda: The Unpriced Life