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I can't disagree w the math here (h/t @patio11 ), but I strongly dislike the idea (what @patio11 calls "aesthetic notions about 'ownership'"
The small discount I might get on a product, based on delta between what I can borrow money at & what a producer can borrow money at >https://twitter.com/stevehind/status/1312423770355720193 …
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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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