The fact that you can’t just buy software you have to rent it, you can’t buy video games you have to rent them, car computers that won’t update if you don’t pay the subscription. That and dynamic pricing are the key rent-seeking behaviours that every economist until Friedman warned us of.

Going to set up some bots to like this one a few more times.

Yeah. I’ve bought (and, full disclosure, helped build) software where a SaaS model actually did have a lower TCO, over a few years at least. But that doesn’t feel like the norm any more. I can’t think of much B2C software that feels like it fundamentally *should* be rented.