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TexasTowelie

(116,803 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:45 PM Oct 29

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

jimfields33

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2. Cutting the cord contributed to much of this. Once streaming began, the rest of the industry jumped
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:58 PM
Oct 29

on board. The root cause was cutting the cord.

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