Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "NJ says🖕to heated seat subscriptions in cars" video.

Sorry, but this really bugs me. Stop blithely accepting corporate rebranding. These aren't "subscription based business models", they are extortion schemes. A subscription model might be e.g. getting a new pair of glasses twice a year. An extortion model involves them breaking something of yours if you don't comply. It's not a difficult thing to tell apart. Similarly, I've never seen a microtransaction. Micro means small, and specifically the ISO prefix means 0.000001. If I had the time, I'd set up a simple rating site listing what level of lie this marketing is, because it's so easily quantifiable. Deviously, tools like that airbag do make sense as a subscription model, to replace chemical or pressure components that may grow stale, leak or deteriorate. Compare life vests and signal guns. Another obvious example would be lithium ion batteries. A component that will need replacement in just a few years should be serviceable. This is now used as a wedge to trick people into accepting extortion schemes on top.
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@nickb3968 Ridiculous straw man rhetoric. You may want to evoke some slogan claiming "regulation bad", but it's only a category of tool. For instance, there's a little regulation that says you should be able to pay your debts with money. Another forced black people to sit at the back of the bus. Another said you can't own people. Right and wrong aren't dictated by where the rules are written.
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@nickb3968 How long did it take you to compose that deranged and entirely misdirected rant? It wasn't time well spent.
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