$1,200/year subscription to unlock your Benz’s performance….

[dddrees]

Originally Posted by OverGeared

I was already writing this near-exact response in my head and I'm glad I scrolled and read all the responses first. This guy is exactly right. Two generations now (millennials and Gen Z) have been raised via gaming with the notion that subscription fees for something you already purchased is a perfectly normal idea. It's in games, it's in music services, and now we're seeing it in cars. Why charge someone a dollar today when you can get thirty-five cents from them every month for five years, right?

Late-stage capitalism has evolved into an all-consuming monster that won't stop until there's just one person left in the world, sitting on a giant pile of gold like Smaug in "The Hobbit."

Greed is nothing new, it's just ever evolving.

[INC]

Originally Posted by dddrees

Greed is nothing new, it's just ever evolving.

This sentence sounded like a brand new Ferengi rules of acquisition

[pickettt]

Originally Posted by dddrees

Greed is nothing new, it's just ever evolving.

It’s much more than that, I’m afraid.

[timepieceluvr]

Recurring revenue business model > Transactional business model.

That said, I don’t want to be on the consumer side of the equation.


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