I have a friend who was a landlord -- owned like 12 houses in low-income areas, managed them all himself (he's a construction guy and knew how to do all the things). The stories he would tell about that experience would make a bestselling Netflix series, except it could never be told, would be canceled so hard it would wipe anyone involved from the face of the earth.

That was the beginning of a re-thinking for me about how human societies / governments work, actually. Never really considered that before.