It's one of the main reasons these companies go under

I remember reading an article many years ago, probably around 2009 or so, saying subscriptions were going to be the future. This was the plan all along. That’s when I started building my physical collection. The only subscription I have is Apple Music and that’s so I can download the music on my iPod. I’m a music buff so I get much use out of it. Even then, I own hundreds of records hundreds of CDs and cassettes still. Iv never had a Netflix or Hulu subscription ever. If I want to watch something I buy a physical copy of it. No clutter at all, all tucked away on a couple large bookshelves. That’s it.

A subscription model for heated seats?????? Are we being serious right now? At this point, I don’t really care if people pirate and I can’t really blame people for committing that kind of theft because all of this is literally stealing the rights from the people to own stuff. I mean, yes we don’t have to buy them, but they’re making it so that for you to live and to use basic things that everyone uses you need to constantly spend money that you don’t have. You can’t save up to get something because you’ll always be paying for it and so you’ll always be in debt Yah. No.

Apart from blaming companies for doing subscription models, let’s also blame ourselves for being a part of the problem. We have the power to cancel subscriptions and when many people do it at once then companies start to panick. Instead of succumbing to this normalization let’s do something to change that so that we can control and have ownership of what we buy and just our lives in general

0:02 "The Gen Zers don't want to own anything" What a jerkwad It's not that people don't want to own things, it's that we are largely not given a choice. Also, it's like a fish in water, people aren't going to know there's an alternative if they've never been made aware. I don't really think that means that people "want" it that way. But than again, I don't have my head up my backside, so maybe I'm biased. Unlike Mr. Has A Lot Of Opinions over there.

I only have 3 subscriptions, minecraft realms, youtube premium (fuck 2 min ads), and spotify

You keep saying Gen Z like this is exclusive. I’m a Xennial and I’m in the same boat.

It’s about complete control over us

16:57 You can’t “burn a new movie” onto a retail DVD. Retail sold movies and tv shows don’t come on rewritable discs.

I have Taylor swift Reputation and Eras tour on external SSD just in case ill need to save the world from angry Swifties :D me included.

who’s paying for steam? who’s actually paying for myfitnesspal? for Hinge?! i grew up w physical media, inet was not mainstream like it is now during our childhoods. what’s going on here? this vid is a fever dream

Renting was supposed to be temporarily not permanent.

Luckily born and mindset of a '96 kid...😅😇🍀💯

Steve Jobs wouldn't allow his kids to have iPads... That's all parents need to know.

Vocal upspeak, talk in cliches. Say "gamechanger"

brother printers are fully refillable btw

btw you can actually upload your own ebooks to kindle! honestly it seems like the best way to use them is to acquire files in some way (that's not public talk but im sure you'll find some if you look), upload them to your kindle ("send to Kindle") and otherwise keep it off wifi, as they can't fuck with you that way. that and keeping a digital backup of all your books somewhere. absolutely just a smalllll part of the conversation but I use my (hand-me-down) kindle pretty often and that specific part is important to me

2030 is a lot closer than 2077 amirite?

So no one alive from now on will be able to buy new things without massive wealth. GenZ is the generation that won't get a chance to own anything. They admit this in the first minute. Gen Z in the US by and large did not vote for their own interests!!! Booomer went 50/50. GenZ go fucking vote next time if there is one.

Gen Z is cooked, and the tool for it was "convenience". Ps. Disney is adding chemtrails to all their classic movies, so people won't notice the systematic poisoning of their biologies.

Shouldn't we stop getting these services on mass? It will make them experience a huge financial loss. Changes would come real quick trust me

I understand that there's many things that have subscriptions but why are we acting like we're forced to?, I own a ps5 and I've never had the need to buy a subscription and I also own my physical disc, now about some services, Netflix it's literally 8 dollars just like crunchyroll, KZbin it's a bit more expensive but I think it's worth it, also services like Walmart and Amazon which again you do not need to buy but at the end of the day and are like 10 bucks, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN YOU ARE NOT FORCED TO BUY ANYTHING PEOPLE.

There are other choices especially in software it used to be hard to get a credit card it should be hard again

Why do you back up stuff online and pay for it. But tangible stuff.. this is why I do not agree with games being sold online digitally. You can lose the game because the company decides to stop operating.

People agree to things and the corporations will do it's outmost to milk it and exploit it.

I'm owning everything, idc

Next will be new speak, history will be wiped, Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning not as an instruction manual ....be afraid be very afraid

Rich white people run America.

not to mention rent increasing, insurance increasing, car prices and loans increasing, groceries increasing, internet increasing, any piece of technology is increasing, education costs are increasing, gas is increasing, all the while jobs and income is decreasing... Yeah, its no worder we fucking hate life rn

“Capitalism breeds innovation”

Only a moron would think the loss of personal property is the dream.

Haha, just come to an underdeveloped country. We already do not own a property or a car, etc. We don't have money to buy it, and can only rent it or buy the worst. Well americans and europeans, just welcome to the real, most part of the world

Just a small note: Regarding Klarna, it's not a new company, maybe in the US, but it's originally a Swedish company and by now it's about 20 years old already.

I know it's not a solution to the source of the problem (enshittification of services, subscription models and all that endless corpo greed), but if you already have huge Spotify or KZbin playlists, there are online converters that can backup your playlists into text/csv files, and you can store them on a external hard drive for safety, in case they decide to delete your account or something (also remember the 3-2-1 backup rule). At least you will have data that you can recover and import back into a new account.

That's why I'll never get rid of my N64 or DVD player. No updates, no subscriptions, no internet access needed. Just a reminder, TV's are like this too now. If you have a "dumb" tv, hang on to it for dear life as long as it still works. I tried to find a "dumb" tv to replace on of mine and they literally don't exist anymore. Every tv that's made now if a "smart" tv with built in bullshit that tracks you, that you can't turn off.

This is why I pirate old software for ownership...trust Id rather not

You never mentioned student loan debt

Here’s my advice: live your life like it’s 1984. All the things might be old, but they won’t require subscriptions.

This is all caused by the choices of the younger consumers. Subscription services like satellite or cable TV have been around for a long time and nobody believed they had the right to own the shows or movies they viewed on them. If you want to own copies of your music, buy the actual MP3 from a service like Amazon Music and download it. Instant gratification has made consumers lazy. They no longer want to buy and store blu-rays, physical books, CDs/MP3s, etc. If you don't like the control or licensing a company uses for their subscription service, then don't pay them. Nobody forced you to get Spotify, Amazon ebooks, Netflix, Hulu, Apple iCloud, HP printers, Adobe products, or The Weather Channel premium. Also, console companies charge for online play but Steam does not (used a Steam icon to represent gaming subscriptions). Anyone who uses the buy now and pay later model just doesn't know how to manage a budget.

Yotube jst blessing me with beautiful women

As a millennial who saw the rise of subscription to services, I cannot emphasize enough how much those piss me off. If a CD costs between the €15-20, that'd mean you could buy 6-8 new CD's a year. How much different music do ya'll listen to? Heck, the library used to have a collection of CD's and DVD's besides books. Here in the Netherlands, libraries even have a toy catalogue so you can have your kids play with all kinds of different toys. Yet subscription services rule the world, with 2 that were the most notable in pissing me off: subscribe to a physical bicycle for €17 a month - if you even get as much as a flat tire, they'll swap it out. For that money you could buy a brand new budget bike EACH YEAR, and probably do away with the old one before you even get as much as a flat tire - in a country where we have 24/7 roadside assistance even for cyclists for as little as €26 a year. Who even has these subscription bikes? Since I've read about it, I am baffled about it's existence because I thought we were frugal people. I am disappointed in complete strangers! Another subscription service that pisses me off quite like fridges is dryers. Unless your home is spectacularly badly insulated and heated you can dry your damn laundry on a rack, it's a luxury product, and the websites where you'd buy your dryer now first give you the option to subscribe to a €800 dryer for €25 p/m. You could buy it for you were willing consistently to put away 2.6 years. What on earth? My last dryer lasted me 10 years. That would have accumulated to €3000. What the actual blistering fuck? Who does this? And why? I swear to god I'd rather live in a nightmare of a cluttered home, than forgo my ownership of anything and be a serf to companies willing to squeeze every single last penny out of me. Shame on them. For the love of god, make 10 savings accounts, name them electronics, media, clothes, travel and whatever, and just after 1 year of living sober, you get to pay for stuff out of your own pocket out of a dedicated savings account. Be your own subscription service, I beg of you.

Not subscribed to anything personally. My parents pay for a local option of various channels and hbo. I am patient enough to listen to music on yt

Spotify has been one of the only things I've kept forever because I listen to so much music my phone is playing Spotify basically non-stop everyday so I can justify that. Netflix prime fucking Hulu whatever all those come and go like I'll get one for a month and then it's gone. subscriptions were great in the beginning because it was like Blockbuster...but everything now there are 500 different subscriptions just for movies and TV no longer worth it, not for that many subscriptions anyway.

There’s nothing wrong with high mileage lol yall are so dumb and whiny. Bad with money cuz yall try to keep up with the Jones. Most of the vid I agreed but I have a 97 rav 4. Teach yourself useful skills and learn to fix minor problems. God our generation is so lazy and useless lol.

...with a TikTok ban it's only going to bring the degenerates to this platform now too. :-(

You will receive the (change) from your paycheck, from now on!!🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My motto is if I can’t buy it outright I can’t afford it. So no payments (certain exceptions, like a house)

Capitalism just doing capitalism things

Sorry I think the Gen Z is a bit spoiled. Why are we blaming older generations 🤔? I bought my first car for 2,500.00 on a 4.65 hr minimum wage part time job. In what world can Gen Z not afford to buy a used car for 4,800.00 where most states have a minimum wage of $12.00/ hr on up. Maybe stop buying all the $7 dollar coffees at Starbucks on the daily.

I remember when we were having this discussion about millennials. Now is Gen Z's time to have the spotlight shown on them before society collectively decides "Yeah okay they're screwed, what can you do? Let's talk about the next generation having the same problem now".