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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I tried using an analogy in the hopes of making my point clear to you. Renting is not buying. Again, you have a photographic memory, and you can store books in your mental "library"; very few people have that advantage, and we need to have those books on hand if we want to read them again. Some people only read a book once; some read the covers off of it. If you're one of the former, then it makes sense to rent your books; if you're one of the latter, it makes sense to buy them. But in neither case is renting the same thing as buying.
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Can you understand that in many situations, renting is just as good as buying to different people for different reasons? For instance, whether I can remember a book or not, renting would be better for me simply for space reasons. At this point in my life, I don't have the space for thousands of books. So I find my favorites, and buy them. The rest I can appreciate by renting again, or buying when I do have space.
Photography equipment is often better to rent, because while I'd love own that $3000 lens, it's not in the cards and is better to just pay $50 for a weeks use.
Car rental (or leasing), apartment rental vs buying a house, they ALL have pros and cons depending on each individual.