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Tweet: Okay I thought this one straight up has to be hyperbole, there's no way they'd make an airbag that checks your subscription status or it doesn't go off, but it's fucking TRUE: "Without the subscription service from In&Motion, the airbag system is non-operational."

Quoted tweet: Reminder that Klim makes a motorcycle airbag vest that has a subscription service and if you don't pay and get in a wreck it just doesn't go off

Google results screenshot: Ai-1 Airbag Vest (Klim) - Choose from $12/month or $120/year subscription options, which include...

Original tweet dated 30th April 2021

  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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    9 months ago

    It doesn't cost them nothing. If they left it on without payment, then people would just buy the subsidized one and never pay the sub.

    Just sell the vest at the subsidized price then. I promise you they aren't doing this out of some desperate need to hold onto razor thin margins, the upfront payment probably already nets them a tidy profit they're just trying to milk people who don't have as much upfront cash by rent seeking.

    Really we should just abolish capitalism.