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		bryanrasmussen on May 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022) all analogies, metaphors, and similes will fall apart at some point as the two things being analogized are not exactly alike (otherwise there would not be any need to analogize)

toxik on May 19, 2024 [–]

Of course, but a useful analogy must bring some new perspective to a thing. Here it just made me wonder what point the author is trying to make.

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