Re:Microsoft Launching $10/month Xbox Game Pass
by mikeyouse on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:46PM
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This feels more broad than digital media.. Car sharing of expensive autonomous cars means nobody will own a vehicle, the 'capital class' has purchased most of the housing as investment so far fewer people will own homes, all of the fiber and most of the WISPs use expensive proprietary equipment so to access the internet you need to rent their devices, etc. etc. is there any area where ownership is actually increasing?
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Re:Microsoft Launching $10/month Xbox Game Pass
by ethbro on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:22PM
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I guess the other way of looking at this is that people are freed from owning non-investments. Where previously you had to own if you wanted to use, now there's an alternative.
But (and big but) that does rental-trap those who can only afford to rent, with no surplus income to invest. And makes monopolies even more dangerous (PS: #&@+ Comcast).
Re:Microsoft Launching $10/month Xbox Game Pass
by pm90 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:34PM
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This might be a kind of a tangent but the reduction of brokerage fees and index funds has actually increased "ownership" (as in investment in) almost all sectors of the economy. Perhaps this analogy is incorrect; would love to hear the refutations :).