4 ms·
What happens is that you'll have to use less stuff and learn to be content with it. What this means for the endless, exponential "consumer" ideology is that it
by feanaro 4y ago
What happens is that you'll have to use less stuff and learn to be content with it.
What this means for the endless, exponential "consumer" ideology is that it isn't sustainable in the long run. This should be blindingly obvious but for some reason many people weren't or aren't seeing it.
- xg15 4y agoThere is a difference though between "making the most of what you have" and "navigating a growing amount of deliberate, arbitrary restrictions". Only because you can't afford a subscription won't mean that people will stop trying to upsell. Instead you'll be constantly confronted with all the things you're supposedly missing out on, will be stuck with purposely annoying workflows and generally will feel like constantly using the shareware version of everything. That's not a future I personally look forward to.
- feanaro 4y agoMaybe in the short term, but I'm talking about a somewhat longer time frame where the entire world will realize exponential growth is no more. Eventually there will be no more upselling because there will be no one left to buy it.