Here is a sarcastic view that has elements of truth. The old sales is model is consumers owned houses. The could then buy an 'appliance' to last many years for

Here is a sarcastic view that has elements of truth. The old sales is model is consumers owned houses. The could then buy an 'appliance' to last many years for goodly-portion-of-monthly-or-annual-wage, on the promise it will 'save you time' and 'improve quality of life'. The new model is consumers rent forever. They buy an 'experience' to last a second for ripoff-price-but-compares-well-to-drinking-or-theater-tickets, on the premise it will keep them unfocused and temporarily fulfil their deeply vacuous lives, thus staving off an expensive shrink or a higher does prescription of antidepressants. In this new model, robots will not be owned by consumers, but will be public service infrastructure. This is because the consumers have nowhere to put them (don't own a home), move too often to justify purchase, and cannot afford a substantial outlay anyway.