• Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      not only that, but people usually use boomer, in this context, to say that the complaint is stupid, or selfish, or something

      the gradual loss of ownership is a real fucking issue

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      And no gen-Z is happy about this model or pushing its use. It’s mostly being pushed by Gen-X and Boomer executives as a further mode of profit extraction in our rentier economic system.

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        Sure, we’ll just wait for the gen-Z executives to roll it al back then right? It’ll never happen, this is a money thing, not a generation thing.

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      I’ve always blamed Adobe for the subscription mess, and that started in the early 00’s.

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      There was a joke about “rethinking the Microsoft model” in a 2005 episode of The Office. The move to subscription based software has been in the works for 25 years or more.