Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:33PM
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> Is that really it, though?
Largely.
> I mean, that seems really weird on its face... "I'd like to own my own copy of this movie rather than just stream it, but I really have to get back to hating Republicans."
That's beause you are assuming that, e.g., political identity fights are an alternative to economic concerns, rather than forces which shape the cogntive filters that determine the perception of the nature, cause, blame, and appropriate response to economic disappointment.
Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by gervase on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:26PM
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I think the argument would be more along the lines of, "I marginally dislike the concept that I no longer own these products, but I absolutely hate the other team, which therefore deserves my attention to a much greater degree."
They're not necessarily related semantically, but in terms of allocation of attention (a finite resource), they are competitive.
Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by swebs on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:04PM
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>"I'd like to own my own copy of this movie rather than just stream it, but I really have to get back to hating Republicans." That doesn't seem all that plausible.
That was actually a perfect summary of /r/technology
Is that really it, though? I mean, that seems really weird on its face... "I'd like to own my own copy of this movie rather than just stream it, but I really have to get back to hating Republicans." That doesn't seem all that plausible.
Personally, I am happy streaming things I don't care to own. At this point, most of the things I watch, I want to watch once. The world is so abundantly overflowing with good video content that I have little reason to return back to something. Those few things, I frequently will buy. Some of my "season DVDs" I'm quite glad I hung on to... some of them were on Netflix for a while, but are no longer, and are still fairly expensive to buy.
If the stream services went away, ultimately I'd be slightly inconvenienced.
Music, by contrast, I tend to listen to a given track/album that I like quite a bit, and I take possession of. YMMV. I'm very music oriented compared to most people.
And Stallman's arguments about software are yet again something different; there are reasons for having the source and using open source that have no media equivalent, because software isn't just media, it's a machine.