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When we buy things do we own them or do we rent them?

Right to repair should be a fundamental part of the contract we have with the corporate entities who consider themselves our owners.

It's clear that market forces won't give this to us.



> It's clear that market forces won't give this to us.

That's exactly why corporations recommend "if you don't like it, don't buy it". Because they know it doesn't work.


If it’s more profitable to screw over the customers and someone gets away with it then everyone has to do the same to stay profitable.

A really cool little ISP I knew was chill about all things except they required you to rent their equipment. Over time you’d end up paying for that router hundreds of times. I cornered the CEO and asked him about it “our competitors do it so we have to do it to remain competitive” he realized it was shitty, didn’t want to be shitty. But felt he had to.

This is why we cannot allow intolerable behavior by corporations. If we allow it once we allow it forever and build a future that is more dystopian hellscape for every right and freedom we give up. In this case the right to repair which is an inalienable right. Because if you can’t repair it and you depend on it, you don’t own it, it owns you.




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