In our techno-feudal future, we won’t own anything, we’ll just pay for the right to use it. The incremental production cost is zero, and to keep using it, you’ll have to pay every month forever. Today Apple Music; tomorrow, everything in your life.
Bill in the PNW
They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs.
-Made physical media harder to buy and use.
-Removed expandable storage from phones.
-Pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
-Made always-online normal.
-Made unlimited internet necessary.
-Slowly raised the price of everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.
