In Jim Hightower's latest blog post, he takes on profiteers who are pushing a new form of abuse: Repair prevention, a treacherous corporate scheme doesn’t merely gouge buyers.
Using both legal ruses and digital lockdowns, major manufacturers are quietly attempting to outlaw the natural instinct of us humanoids to fiddle with and improve the material things we own. Indeed, the absurdity and arrogance of their overreach is even more basic: They’re out to corporatize the very idea of “owning.”
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