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Imagine working at a factory installing seat heaters into cars knowing that the people who drive thosr cars won’t be allowed to use them.

It’s like some high level modern art where someone builds intricate machines and then puts them inside glass cases where people can look at them but they never get turned on.

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BMW is probably fine with this. Without any sort of right to repair legislation, it liberates them of warranty obligations and costs them nothing.

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Piracy advocates have been saying for years that piracy increases sales. I bet there’s something to that, even for heated seat subscriptions

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I can’t say whether piracy has increased the amount of money I spend on media, but it has certainly informed me about where to spend it.

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:geordi-no: Piracy is good because it hurts capitalists

:geordi-yes: Piracy is good because it makes market forces more efficient

:galaxy-brain:

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Not to mention that some percentage of car owners would rather just pay the fee than deal with any workaround

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no I would not download a car. delete cars.

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you wouldn’t download a car train ticket

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actually i would. i don’t care if the transit authority is worker owned and run by robo-Bill Haywood im still not paying a goddamn fare :screm-cool:

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Having to hack a car for a some seat warmers is the shittest cyberpunk future stuff I can think.

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YOU are not paying for a heated seat subscription

I am not using heated seats because I cannot afford a car made this century

WE ARE NOT THE SAME

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Broke: no heated seats because your fancy BMW makes you pay a subscription fee and you’re mad.

Woke: no heated seats because you can’t afford a new car.

Bespoke: no car because you spliced a space heater into the cigarette lighter and started an electrical fire

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