I swear, every company is trying to be a SaaS player now. They'd rather rent stuff to you than to sell stuff.
This is, at a deep level, what it means to own nothing.
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Even if we negotiated it down to like... twice... it would be such an improvement.
They discovered that people are stupid enough to pay for the same product each year even though they paid for it the first time.
This. It’s not them, it’s us
As a millennial, the concept of "renting" will haunt me for the rest of my life. Bitcoin is the only asset I own and it will never be available for rent.
I blame Apple and iTunes. Since iTunes started by leasing access to music you had ALREADY paid for, it's been a slow sly creep toward digital serfdom... i couldn't identify it at first, but this has been my ideological beef with Apple since the iPod.
Can I have a copy of your book?
They have to. It's the only way to be profitable long term with digital content long term. Only way back is to revert to physical media. Which I'm okay with and advocate, but I don't think it's going to happen.
I remember when you could buy versions of Photoshop for like $700, and pirating said versions because I was a broke kid at the time. 😂
It's because technology is constantly making the cost of goods drop towards zero. Exponentially increasing abundance is gradually negating the whole point of capitalism. Just imagine when everybody figures out that all they need to do is put their money in Bitcoin and watch their net worth grow while they sleep.
Succers Absolutely Adopting Slavery
The rental game is real. Rental companies make hand over fist in profits. I work in this space. It's nuts
If people valued true ownership this would not fly.
it's funny you agreeing with Varoufakis
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