March 20, 2020
This is a short video that gives voice to what most of us were thinking about "product as service". I wasn't going to link to it as my embedded video to actual content ratio is all out of whack right now. But, there are a couple of things mentioned as asides that really got my goat. First, I had no idea until this brief mention of it just how malignant Google Stadia is. It really is the worst of every awful trend in video games concentrated and wrapped in maliciousness. Likewise the PS-5 looks like it is going to be, well, evil. I had seriously thought about a Tesla pickup in the future though not so much after this. However, the thing that got me so mad that I got up walked out and left the room and had to come back after cooling down was the "letter of concern" at 15:06. Which indicates that whatever firm the individual is working for (probably a bank or investment firm) has a corporate culture that makes them unfit stewards of other people's money. It also speaks how important superficial fashion is becoming in our society and how perniciously powerful it is for enforcing conformity. With the mean girls in high-school one could avoid them or ultimately matriculate. Now that our corporate class are overwhelmingly foppish aristocrats, there is no escape.
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Posted by: Rick C at Sat Mar 21 00:51:32 2020 (Iwkd4)
I try to impress on my peers the importance of owning things when I can. In a healthy society there would be a broad distribution of ownership - the people who do the work would own things, own their livelihoods in many cases. In the unhealthy society we can see developing, rentiers and 'providers' own everything and grant it to the people who make society function 'as a service': That way lies communist revolutions, because feudalism sucks enough to make it seem like progress.
Posted by: MadRocketSci at Sat Mar 21 23:52:03 2020 (+G8SK)
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