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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What could go wrong with depending on such a service? The things up for rental here are only things that have to be frequently changed or used just once or twice. I don't expect to subscribe to more permanent things as part of the expansion of tool rentals. Yes, some like Adobe have already adopted subscription for permanenty things, but that's different from this topic.