Well, I stopped reading right there. Didn’t even make it past the second article. LOL.
People don’t buy cars or houses as commodities - those are not reduced to purely economic terms. Some people like yards, hardware floors, walk in closets, good car stereos, sunroofs, skylights, 0-60 in 8 seconds or less, or hundreds of other intangibles that go into the purchase decision of a car or house or college.