skodises
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Thank you for this comment.
The “monetization of everything”, and the “en****tification of everything”, are indeed the two cheeks of the same, regrettable, greed-driven ass.
Yes, literally everything can be monetized. But I find that as I have gotten older, I take exception to that rather bald statement: especially when I find that some corporate-person has begun seeking rent for a thing I naively once believed I had actually paid for, and therefore owned in fee simple.
The latter concept is now rapidly receding in my rear-view mirrors, and that itself is another quaint, old-fashioned, dated idiom.
I’ve often said that I anxiously await some oligarch introducing the great new concept of BaaS, or “Breathing as a Service”. 5 years ago, I used to tell that all the time as a joke. And I got my share of laughs from it. But, truth be told: now, I’m not finding much humor in it.
I suspect that there is yet another generational divide here: people under the age of 60 have been trained to tolerate stripmining of literally every aspect of their very lives, pretty much from birth, if there is the promise of Something Cool to come: just wait for the next release. Trust us!
However, some of us brittle, elderly, get-off-my-lawn old ****s are not as inclined to simply go along with this relatively recent development. Some of us have realized, at long last, that breathing is not actually a service for which we are willing to eternally pay, on an open-ended, ongoing basis.
No sale, says I. I will stipulate to being old, nearly dead, and stupid. Now, go ahead and vent your spleens on telling me how very wrong I am, even as you tacitly pay the fees for your tech to the newly-anointed rentiers who now own it, and will happily let you use it for a trivial, ever-so-small, easy-to-ignore monthly fee.
Food for thought, anyway, and this is only one old nearly-dead bozo’s opinion. Your mileage will most certainly vary.
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