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[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Also if buying isn't owning than wtf did I buy. In any other time period this corporate shit would be considered a scam.

[–] HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago

Also if buying isn't owning than wtf did I buy.

"Access." It is such a scam.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You didn't buy anything, we rent now...

Landlords everywhere, even on the internet... It's disgusting. They get to own, we get to borrow...

So to OP, it's still stealing as they own everything, we just rent. Fucking scam for sure :(

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Honestly, land should be considered a utility

[–] Umthisguy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

At the risk of sounding like a landlord here, there are far wealthier people to be disgusted by.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Gates quietly buying as much arable land as he can in the world.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

False dichotomy, I'm disgusted by both.

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think it's backwards to still focus our ire on "landlords" when it's oligarch (yes, some of whom are also landlords) that are the real enemy.

In modern society, many landlords are just middle-class folks who bought an apartment building as their retirement fund.

[–] Gerbler@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

"YoU BoUgHt a lIcEnSe tO UsE ThE PrOdUcT"

Funny how the word license never comes up until you read the fine print. Colloquially you're buying the product. If we're going by legal technicalities then legally I ain't stealing shit.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

You bought the right to give them money! :D

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

You are renting the software forever, until it's no longer supported (I'm looking at you Nintendo)

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The same thing as when you buy a movie ticket.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you "buy" a massage you don't then own a massage. Lol. Doesn't matter what time period.

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Services like massages are paying directly for someone's active labor, buying a book, a song, or an (offline) game is one a time transaction for an already completed work

[–] rchive@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago

What you're paying for when there's a license or other kind of agreement is more akin to a service. Like permission to use it, renting it. Paying for labor is just renting someone's body and skills. The seller making the offer gets to determine the terms, and then you have just as much power to walk away.