👉 Why don't scientists get paid? Because they just use computers.
For a serious yet whimsical explanation of why mortgage payments have gone up: "Why don't I have enough money to pay off my mortgage?" You're asking why you haven't managed to save up enough for your payment, haven't you? And here's an unsettling example sentence that might make people smile: "You have 50% more debt than you do income." This sentence is a bit scary because it implies there are 100% more debts than incomes. It can make us wonder why we're in this situation and how we can possibly manage to pay off all these debts.
