X-As-A-Service is rent. The wealth of a society can be readily determined by what a citizen owns - what is theirs without question - and what they rent, conditional on continued payment and meeting terms and conditions imposed on them by another.
Look at any service agreement and you will find provision for the service provider to withdraw it at any time, for any reason, without explanation or due process. Welcome to the fucking future. #precariat
Rented possessions, rented media, rented lives. All driven by the massive expansion in consumer credit, driving up prices so those who do not consent to hire purchase have no choice.
'Purchase' homes on leasehold and pay ever-escalating rent to your landlord for the rest of your life, because land ownership has been quietly stripped from all but a fraction: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/feb/22/freehold-on-disputed-birmingham-leasehold-flats-goes-on-sale
Is this the worst leasehold block in Britain?

£8,000 a year ground rent bill for buyers already and rising towards £8m – as watchdog warns time’s up for leasehold

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/feb/22/freehold-on-disputed-birmingham-leasehold-flats-goes-on-sale
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