It starts slow. Carrier offers phone with plan. You never really own it
One day photoshop moves to a subscription based system. You no longer own but rent
Music goes to streaming, don’t own that. Just pay a monthly rental fee.
Protools goes to subscription
Movies go to streaming .
While it may be convenient to not have a box of CDs or DVDs that you own, little by little one gets used to not owning anything.
Conditioning.
And then one day you’ll own nothing, even the clothes in your back.
But someone will own it. Just not you.
So, who owns it??
Dave, we were getting to be such good friends. Now you gotta go full retard on me again?How much to rent/lease your idea?
It starts slow. Carrier offers phone with plan. You never really own it
One day photoshop moves to a subscription based system. You no longer own but rent
Music goes to streaming, don’t own that. Just pay a monthly rental fee.
Protools goes to subscription
Movies go to streaming .
While it may be convenient to not have a box of CDs or DVDs that you own, little by little one gets used to not owning anything.
Conditioning.
And then one day you’ll own nothing, even the clothes in your back.
But someone will own it. Just not you.
So, who owns it??
I agree, Raymond.There will always be a large group of non-conformists that have not been taken into account.
Just curious if you’d like to share. Locked out how?Except for a brief few moments here and there, l have been completely locked out of society. But even at only 66 l have outlived all my friends and this social media virtual society, while it is better than TV, it really sucks balls.
The world isn't there yet. But it is going in that direction fast. For me, l just got food stamps for the first time in my life last November. Then Billy Gibbons gave me $700 for my cut of the ownership of "Hey Baby Que Paso". I reported the $700 and food stamps cut me off because they said it was self employment income. Yet it was a one time check. So now my food stamps are cut off. It's a process. I got no stimulus pandemic check because l don't file for income tax. But l have been a homeless Skid Row vagrant for the last 8 years. So here we are.Musicians have always been outside of the ‘normal’ society to some degree.
The kind of locked out I’m talking about is when the grocery store won’t sell you food because due to a lower social credit score, you’re cut off.
During the pandemic, vaccine passports did much the same. No jab, no job, no jab no dinner out, no jab, no club entrance. Etc.
It's more like how do you not survive? But you are 100% on your own. You make alliances to claim a spot, then those are gone. And others want to make alliances with you to camp out next to you. And they don't last either. Busking was fun, but if you make any money, and we did, you won't be doing that long. Survival is in recycling cans and bottles.So you truly are on the outside. How do you survive? Busking?