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is a very small inducement against two big downsides:
* increasing my "nut" - the minimum payment I make every month to keep the lights on. Subscriptionizing increases fragility.
* the cognitive overhead of knowing I have to pay bills or even knowing that I have to earn $X
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3/ If I am to buy a $20k car, but I could subscribe to some aspect of it and instead pay $15k up front and then a monthly fee, I'd far rather delay the purchase a month or two to save the extra money THEN buy it. And, yes, I understand the argument that my utility is diminished
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4/ by being without that car for the extra few months. ...but I'm more than willing to trade that utility loss for the future utility gain of NEVER WORRYING ABOUT ANY ASPECT OF IT.
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5/ To some degree this may be bc I am neuro atypical, and am far more bothered by external dependencies, deadlines, repeating processes, etc. ...but to some degree I think the utility hit in the future is real, and I just appreciate that and have lower time preferences.
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7/ yep there's a long history of people hating microtransactions Disney sells day passes for a reason Owning a car outright is a decade-pass on transportation, with no microtransactions.https://twitter.com/leepavelich/status/1313197902903209984 …
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8/ related thread (which ends in a link to the top of this thread - make sure to abort before falling into an infinite loop!)https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1270013861752705025 …
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This is already being done. It’s just manufacturer financing. Decent down payment + decent credit and they give you 0% interest.
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