"You Will Own Nothing"

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Over the past year or so, I've become very concerned about ownership rights, especially in the digital realm. I tried to collect my thoughts in this video. I talk about Kindles, subscriptions to your car and printer, and (for a surprisingly long time) Wizards of the Coast. I also briefly discuss the book 'Technofeudalism' by Yanis Varoufakis.

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Original WEF article that spawned the meme: https://web.archive.org/web/20161125135500/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is

Playlist with Kindle tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG90WrvLcO6uylt9MTo1DHSzByMXLP8bu

00:00 Begin
01:46 You Don't Own What You Buy
06:12 A Surprisingly Long Digression About Wizards of the Coast
13:33 Subscriptions for Everything
18:26 "You Will Own Nothing"
20:08 Technofeudalism
21:55 What Do We Do?