I have a gut feeling that subscriptions and need to repair and buy new things (including planned obsolescence and driving the pursuit of what’s brand new) as well as inflation is all coming from this dumb assumption that GDP and companies’ revenue can grow YoY indefinitely, it’s impossible in the long run yet the big players try to satisfy the big shareholders, and when they are not meeting expectations, people who have only money begin to panic they monies won’t keep bloating without having to lift a finger.
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@buiosu The topic of planned obsolescence & perceived obsolescence are super interesting topics to me. I wrote about it because it’s such a fascinating subject. We had a nice discussion about it on the FORUM as well:
I listen to vinyl. I’m neither a collector nor a music lover enough to find FLAC insufficient, but I like the conscious effort I have to make to listen to music, I listen to it and appreciate it very differently from when I’m at the office and I put on music just so I can’t hear the others. I also like to help pay for the bands I like.
I don’t listen to cassette tapes, but I’ve kept all the tapes from when I was young. There are the ones I found at flea markets and garage sales (when I was young, CDs had already totally replaced cassettes in the stores), and above all the compilations my friends and lovers made for me. Remember these? We’d make cassettes of our best songs for each other. I intend to listen to them again one day.
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My van still has a cassette player 
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