Recently I gave away my linux compute machine and use AWS instead. I can dial up to 400GB of RAM/100 cores when I need to run a major compute job, and dial down

Recently I gave away my linux compute machine and use AWS instead. I can dial up to 400GB of RAM/100 cores when I need to run a major compute job, and dial down to a machine which is 10 cents an hour for 99.0% of my compute time. I get the benefit of owning a 10,000$ machine for a fraction of the cost, approx 80$ a month. "The erosion of personal ownership and what that will mean for our loyalties to traditional American concepts of capitalism and private property" If the lament here is for the mountain of garbage that each individual generates in the name of private property, color me not-amused. Think of those broken old DVDs that were used at most once or twice. Think of those cars that sit on parking lots and garages 99% of their lives. Wounding the earth to extract all that resource and burying our future in a carbon cloud. And for what! To hold on to some vague notion of private property like a comfort blanket. The future is one we have not seen before, of all powerful trillion dollar companies. But the recent past is a hell scape which led to global warming and other atrocities. We should be willing to walk boldly into this unknown future if only for the promise of reducing waste and possibly a better climate future.