Everyone wants to buy (cheaply) other people's work but want to only rent or lease (the products of) their work to others. I suspect this is in essence rent-see

Everyone wants to buy (cheaply) other people's work but want to only rent or lease (the products of) their work to others. I suspect this is in essence rent-seeking. John Deer "sells" these equipments but would love to just rent them and tries to achieve that anyway they can. They want to capture as much as possible of the value that is produced with their equipment. Making the farmers dependent on them for repairs is just a hidden rent.