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Priced out of living in communities where you have friends and family to share things with? Hooray! Now you can pay us for that stuff in addition to your increased cost of living!
/c/orphancrushingmachine
I don't think all friends and family own all these stuff either. And this really does save money. The machine here is at most consumerism, incentivizing us to pay extra and own everything we'll use for like at most a month, which I think is too far of a stretch.
Well put. It's preventing waste and excess for sure. It just seems like a manufactured problem from pushing us apart.
Curious what goods you don't think friends would have back in the day from your perspective
I guess it's easy to be cynical, but no, this is not at all orphancrushingmachine material
I hear you. I'm not the everything sucks and nothing matters if it's not complete, type of person. This just seems like a bandaid for breaking up community. It's good to solve problems, but I'm concerned we shouldn't have this problem.