The car-as-home lets influencers escape rent but conceals severe precarity

Evidence

The car, in replacing the domestic space of the home, permits Crump a way into a kind of entrepreneurialism that avoids the trap of real estate, rent, and other usurious machinations of contemporary capitalism. Yet, Crump’s stated “happiness” may conceal just how difficult this life of freedom is. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 203

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the core framing of the car as one of the four infrastructures of the Corpocene; connects to the influencer measuring wage in mobility rather than rent.