A closer look
Subscription economy model has aggressively infected almost every single modern industry, rapidly shifting the consumer landscape from actually owning software, media, and hardware to endlessly renting it for a recurring monthly fee that quietly drains your bank account. Tech companies figured out that selling you a product once is for absolute suckers, but convincing you to pay five dollars a month for the rest of your natural life to use a heated seat that is already physically installed in your own car is peak profit optimization. We are rapidly hurdling toward a futuristic capitalist utopia where nobody actually owns anything at all, and you will probably have to watch a thirty-second unskippable advertisement just to unlock your own front door in the morning
