But in another way, this is exactly how open source works. They do not sell you a new release and push ads showing how stylish you will be if you dump version 1

But in another way, this is exactly how open source works. They do not sell you a new release and push ads showing how stylish you will be if you dump version 13 and upgrade to version 14. They just push a point release as needed. Some software is updated daily and some is updated once every five years. There is no marketing team trying to drum up artificial demand for some python package. > They were like this in the Soviet Union, and it was laughable how much they ended up lagging behind after a few decades. The soviet system was an authoritarian one and I am proposing a free market solution. I am basically just saying people can save money if they band together and buy machines which provide for their basic needs. But also it would all be open source, and like software it would be updated as needed. Actually the example with cars was just an attempt to explain consumerism. I might as well just paste this definition in to this comment like I just did elsewhere. "Consumerism is the idea that increasing the consumption of goods and services purchased in the market is always a desirable goal and that a person's wellbeing and happiness depend fundamentally on obtaining consumer goods and material possessions." https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerism.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerism.asp