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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by EADGBE on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:40AM (#17757751)
Instead of you owning the fridge, now the service company does. It'll just buy you a new fridge every time some little thing goes wrong; because it's cheaper to pay for delivery of a new one than to pay skilled labor to come and fix it (multiple times, usually).
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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by F_r_k on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @11:13AM (#17758640)
It'll exchange you for a new one. But once you own thousands of fridges, I'm sure it's more economical to repair them afterwards with in-house technicians
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