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@blinky465 I’m glad you spotted that too.  I grew up watching the X-files, I love conspiracy theories but of the moderns are absolutely rubbish.  If you couldn’t make a compelling thriller about it, it’s probably not a very good conspiracy theory.  So yeah.  I think really most corporations are just motivated by money. They may follow the current trends or political winds, but that’s only because they think they can earn more money that way.

I don’t think the move to services over products is a conspiracy theory – it is demonstrably true and I do think we need wake up to it and also stop the next generation settling for that as the new status quo.  When we see a generational shift that’s going in the wrong direction, making the world worse for the next, we should probably try and stop it.  Private ownership is so important and we need to get people to aspire to that goal rather than accepting everything just being rented.  Because ultimately, somebody owns the thing you are renting – it’s not like private ownership is going away, we are just depriving the masses of that particular privilege