[HN Gopher] The End of Ownership
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The End of Ownership
Author : wowtip
Score : 33 points
Date : 2021-06-21 16:26 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| doggodaddo78 wrote:
| Yes. The bigger picture is a gradient towards ubiquitous rent-
| seeking. Imagine all of your essential possessions being leased
| and unownable. Water, oxygen, food, clothing, transportation,
| housing, and even organs and implants being leased from monopoly
| conglomerates who could literally end your life whenever they
| choose. They already have cameras and microphones installed in
| millions of homes.
|
| Also, on all of those possessions and services, what happens when
| the API goes down, they discontinue support, they get hacked, or
| they decide to remotely brick what you have?
| Noumenon72 wrote:
| Monopoly conglomerates want your money, not your life. It's
| going to be governments cutting people off. For example,
| Pakistan cutting your cell service if you don't get vaccinated.
| https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan-covid-vaccine-punjab-t...
| HWR_14 wrote:
| Monopoly conglomerates what your money _and are indifferent
| to your life._ See cigarette companies or the recent Texas
| power issues. Or health insurers.
|
| It's going to be businesses cutting people off if they don't
| fit a mold. Because being outside the mold costs extra upkeep
| they don't want.
| api wrote:
| It is way, way past time for a new tech-individualist project.
| The PC revolution was not merely a product of market forces or of
| legislation. It was the product of a movement that included
| things like the Homebrew Computer Club and the Whole Earth
| Catalog.
|
| One of the biggest rocks we need to move is to push against this
| tide of cynicism, futility, and crazy conspiracy mumbo-jumbo. All
| these things keep people from doing anything by either making
| them give up before they started or by channeling their effort
| toward dead ends. You can't struggle for a better future if all
| your effort is being channeled into fighting reptilian shape
| shifting space aliens hepped up on adrenochrome or some other
| piece of fantasy bullshit.
| adamrezich wrote:
| I completely agree with your first paragraph but struggle to
| make any connection between it and your second paragraph
| zepto wrote:
| In many ways it makes little difference whether the
| conspirators are lizard aliens, or a cabal of capitalists in
| a smoke filled room.
| api wrote:
| The relationship is definitely tangential, but the idea is
| that people need to start doing actual things instead of
| imaginary things to fight for their autonomy.
| c22 wrote:
| If you're paying rent then it's not the end of _ownership_. If
| anything it 's a doubling-down on the concept.
| topkai22 wrote:
| This article is talking about electronics and integrated digital-
| mechanical systems, but right now there is also a big financial
| premium on ownership in real estate as well. Not sure if these
| are linked, but I wonder if long term low inflation and interest
| rates makes subscription revenue more attractive than in a more
| volatile environment. Seems like probably.
| literallyaduck wrote:
| Taxing SaaS and tying it to funding open source alternatives
| would be a solution to corporate colonization.
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