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Capitalism eliminates personal property by turning everything into a rental (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I forget who linked to these details, but amazon makes stuff like this legally defensible by being ambiguous about ownership of a kindle book... IE when you buy a book, you're only buying the ability to read / access it, not the book itself.