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Everything wants me to pay rent (lemmy.world)
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[–] 195 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I don't see how that's a "boomer" complaint lol I'm a millennial and don't know anyone that's excited to pay monthly fees for something they already bought

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  • [+] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)
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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    not only that, but people usually use boomer, in this context, to say that the complaint is stupid, or selfish, or something

    the gradual loss of ownership is a real fucking issue

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    "Boomer" has lost all meaning. It has just become an empty counter for when you disagree with someone but you lack the emotional intelligence to have an actual discussion about something other the superficial.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    And no gen-Z is happy about this model or pushing its use. It’s mostly being pushed by Gen-X and Boomer executives as a further mode of profit extraction in our rentier economic system.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    I blame iPhone and Android apps that required developers to keep paying a $100 minimum yearly fee to keep an app in the App Store.

    There were tons $1-$5 apps in the early days of the stores, but 3-4 years in they switched to either freemium subscriptions or adware (or ad ransom models). Usually as publishers bought out indie devs, if they just didn’t copy them anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's because a lot of boomers own their homes and the concept of rent is foreign to them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I really don't understand why people call themselves homeowners when they are paying off a 30 year mortgage.

    Feels like rent with extra steps.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I mean it depends on whether they actually pay it off. Many boomers were able to leverage the explosion in housing prices into paying off their cheap mortgages ahead of time. The boomer success metric is actually based on this principle. Buy a $150k house in 1998. Sell it in 2018 for $450k. The mortgage is irrelevant.

    The obvious problem with this is that it completely fucks over the next generation.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Because software needs to be maintained. Well at least most software that has a subscription model is maintained and gets regular updates. People don’t work for free, you have to pay them

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's the result of a fucked business model. Many software devs came and went prior to the subscription model. Technofeudalism is not wanted by anyone but the software publishers.

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