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Liberal YouTubers

TexasTowelie

(116,608 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:45 PM Oct 29

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Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. - More Perfect Union

Everything is a subscription now — your printer, your refrigerator, even your car. It’s all just another way for greedy corporate execs to rake in profits. You’re forced into renting everything you already own, and their revenue goes up and up and up.

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Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. - More Perfect Union (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 29 OP

Particularly annoying to me radical noodle Oct 29 #1

Cutting the cord contributed to much of this. Once streaming began, the rest of the industry jumped jimfields33 Oct 29 #2

K&R flying rabbit Oct 29 #3

radical noodle

(8,492 posts)

1. Particularly annoying to me

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:53 PM

Oct 29

is the subscription to keep my car's nav system working.

jimfields33

(18,696 posts)

2. Cutting the cord contributed to much of this. Once streaming began, the rest of the industry jumped

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:58 PM

Oct 29

on board. The root cause was cutting the cord.

flying rabbit

(4,770 posts)

3. K&R

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:32 PM

Oct 29

Its only going to get worse, unless people wake up.

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