"Why are people buying physical media all of a sudden?" journalists ask with a straight face as another piece of media that they thought they were paying adequate rent to access is removed from their account
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@researchfairy effectively none of the vinyl fetishizers would ever cite physical ownership as a reason for their purchases
@jason @researchfairy Not true - quite a number of them include that in their list of reasons. Not as their primary goal, no, but it’s in the list.
Rent your books
Rent your movies
Rent your video games
Rent your word processor and other apps
Rent access to your own photos that are all on the cloud now and if you ever stop, they delete them
The AI tools that are now mandatory at your work and that are deskilling you are also only available for rent
You pay the iCloud tax, the Netflix tax, the Amazon tax, the Disney tax, the Microsoft tax, the Playstation tax, the Adobe tax, the Claude tax, the Spotify tax, the—
"Aah, just give us all your money!"
@researchfairy "You will own nothing and you will like it."
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@researchfairy read “rent your wood processor” 👀
@researchfairy how much wood would a woodchuck process.
@platypus @researchfairy …if the woodchuck could pay rent?
