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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money
(www.theguardian.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
You didn't subscribe to those things.
So you just didn't read the article?
Renting is the "subscription" you're complaining about. You're right that rent-to-own is a scam at best, but unlike most digital subscriptions you're using the thing to do something. Like with all rentals there's a break even line where you would've been better buying the thing if you use it often/long enough. But the service existing is not itself a bad thing.
Oh my god dude renting has been a thing for millenia.
It's not nearly as bad as it is now.
And it was always a scam, even back then.