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Maybe that's just not the resource efficient way going forward. Maybe in the future people will laugh at the idea of buying 2 tons of steel to sit around doing
by sabjut 5y ago
Maybe that's just not the resource efficient way going forward. Maybe in the future people will laugh at the idea of buying 2 tons of steel to sit around doing nothing for 95% of it's lifetime.
- echelon 5y agoI already hate not being able to repair my phone, own my music/movies, etc. I own my home so that I can do what I want with it, and I own my car so that I can take it off road, leave my stuff in it, and work on it. Rental services are bland as fuck. I can organize my music and movies way better than Spotify and Netflix so that it meets my exact preferences. No. I don't want to live in the rental economy future, and I find it hard to relate to those that do.
- Mashimo 5y agoI own my home, it's an economic logical choice. Just like you I also have my music and movies as "real files" and not in the cloud. But renting a car that would show up at my door and can drive it self back? Man, that would be cool. Would just need it a few time per year.
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- _carbyau_ 5y agoNot GP but I feel that renting/subscribing everything doesn't feel very secure. I'd like to believe a "rentier" future will empower renters with even cheaper options due to efficiency of utility. As you say, having a big chunk of capability sit there most of the time is wasteful in a sense. However it also feels like it entrenches the rich with further options of rent-seeking. And it doesn't take much cynicism to think that any benefits due to efficient use of resources will go to the owners pocket, not the customer/renter.
- zbrozek 5y agoIf you look at tool rental, it's usually cheaper to buy the tool at somewhere between a few days and a week of rental time. I don't expect any efficiencies to end up with the renter. It's so bad that it was cheaper for me to buy a wide format printer than it was to pay a print shop for prints to submit to the planning department.
- vidarh 5y agoI suspect that is largely to do with frequency of use. To me it'd be worth a premium to not have to buy, store and dispose of something I know I'd rarely use, to the point that for some things I might well be fine with paying full purchase price if I can just avoid the hassle. Renting in those instances would be more about avoiding annoyances than saving money. At the same time I'd assume the amount of time specialized tools lay idle but lock up capital and storage space for providers of rented capacity means you need to recoup a lot of cost per rental event.
- choward 5y agoSure, but with this you get the worst of both worlds. You pay to own some metal sitting around most of the time and then pay to use it.