Re:Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (1998)
by ianai on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:37AM
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Right and you don’t own anything. Just purchase some amount of service periodically at a steep markup. The mbas saw what was going on in services and wanted to turn everything into a similarly periodic transaction.
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Re:Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (1998)
by simonh on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:16PM
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I have an iPhone, don't pay a penny in recurring services, and it all works fine. I do have a Backblaze subscription for my desktop, which I'm very happy with. With private relay I'm seriously considering signing up with a paid iCloud account though. I mean how is that abusive, but a paid VPN subscription is considered a leet hacker move for those in the know? It's just snobbery.
Re:Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (1998)
by shiomiru on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:44PM
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> I mean how is that abusive, but a paid VPN subscription is considered a leet hacker move for those in the know?
From what I've seen it's not really those "in the know", but rather those convinced by half-assed explanations of what paid VPN subscriptions do by YouTube sponsorships.