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The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair

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568 points rntn | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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CatWChainsaw ◴[18 Oct 24 18:30 UTC] No.41882137[source]▶
The Feds are coming, and I hope they keep going and going until there isn't a single product or service left that dares dictate what you can do after the transaction is complete.
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pwillia7 ◴[18 Oct 24 18:42 UTC] No.41882261[source]▶
Say hello to your new Subscription products
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Gibbon1 ◴[18 Oct 24 18:57 UTC] No.41882376[source]▶
I've been rolling the idea around that perhaps if a product is encumbered by a subscription then it's not a first sale and the product counts as inventory. And gets taxed as such.
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twh270 ◴[18 Oct 24 19:12 UTC] No.41882512[source]▶
I don't know the first thing about such things, but I'll bet if companies were pushed on this they'd suddenly start asserting that it's a lease, which I think is typically taxed similarly to a sale.

I hate the "everything's a subscription" business model that's taking over everything. We'll achieve peak serfdom when the air we breathe, water we drink, and food we eat is bought on a subscription model.

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1. CatWChainsaw ◴[18 Oct 24 20:42 UTC] No.41883312[source]▶
If it were feasible to charge you for your own heartbeats, companies absolutely would. Infinite growth is a poison pill idea - it brought us to where we are today, and would drag us to the future you outlined, unless the folly is abandoned.
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2. datavirtue ◴[19 Oct 24 14:29 UTC] No.41887950[source]▶
Nothing wrong with growth,it's natural. The population grows and so does the money supply in turn. This is good. What is not good is when a particular company is trying to retain ALL growth of certain segments for themselves through abusive leverage.

A principle that stuck out to me as a child was that our society prioritized lower prices for consumers as a whole over the prosperity of any one company or industry.

We let companies grow to the point where they now subvert the will of the people.