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you will own nothing and you will be happy


I own nothing [1] and I'm quite happy, and I have a lot of leftover cash each month.

[1] Except for a few 2TB external hard drives to store the media I don't "own".


Even when the billionaires and gigacorporations own every physical asset on the planet, surely they can still let the little people ‘own’ some digital assets?

Isn’t the ideal to have us all continue our excessive mindless consumption within virtual spaces, maximum profit for minimum environmental cost?



Exactly like I said a few days ago; funny enough: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31970488


I wonder what quote people brought up during the licensing bickerings of way before that "what if we were all to just like rent things lmao" article.


The Old Man : Anyone can buy OCP's stock and own a piece of our city. What could be more democratic than that?


You can pirate everything, pay nothing and be quite happy too.

Edit: allegedly.




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