Stripped of the class jargon, this could be more simply expressed as “planned obsolescence is the inspiration for the subscription model”
Re:Unwanted Corkpull
by beckman466 on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:39AM
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do you mean 'the subscription model' where giant profit-seeking firms retain full ownership of tech, and who can therefore jack up the price of 'service'/usage at any time?
yeah fuck that. i live in an apartment block where i pay €3 for every wash. that's a fucking ripoff.
the solution is modular open source hardware and software.
seriously, why are you so people to give up all their power?
we need to start thinking outside the boundaries of the capitalist profit-motive.
to see the devastating impacts of planned obsolescence (e.g. the disgusting amount of e-waste shipped to African countries) and then think we should give more power to corporations is a bit of a mindfuck to me.
> Stripped of the class jargon
easy to frame or dismiss something as jargon if you're benefitting from the status quo, eh?
i think Pendergrast used the quote to highlight the capitalist dynamic that incentivizes the profit-seeking economy towards creating low-quality single-use industrially-produced products, due to the parasitic economic rents from intellectual property making proper products overly expensive. in other words: the propertied class makes the working class pay double/triple.
that and planned obsolescence.
that's what i read in this article.