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[jll29]

This is genious, whoever came up with it!

Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took (caused by the pharma company, not by you).

[otterley → jll29]

This is literally the plot context of a recent Black Mirror episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/