july

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I suspect a lot of people here will read this and think “web3 solves this.” But the problem isn’t one of decentralization or centralization. It’s one of incentives and convenience. A demand for convenience has shifted incentives for products to be subscription based.

It’s subscription fatigue, essentially 

Then: i.e. DVDs in a world where ownership was cumbersome, streaming was a great innovation that made sense

Now: in a world where I have to pay for rent for everything- it’d be nice to own the digital land I plow on once again.

digital allows both ownership and convenience, we just havent brought on the mass market audience on the ownership train yet 

problem still remains for physical where ownership and convenience are still at odds

working @ /neynar   🪐  casting @ /rish

I pay Kindle and iTunes to buy (i.e. not stream monthly) books and movies

Would def prefer to own them outright instead of having a license agreement that still allows them to close my account, etc.

yeah i should have clarified I meant digital ownership here, not physical ownership