Motorcycle airbag vests that will not work if you aren't up-to-date on the subscription payments when you have a crash...
A more recent example comes from the med-tech giant Abbott Labs, which used DMCA 1201 to suppress a tool that allowed people with diabetes to link their glucose monitors to their insulin pumps, in order to automatically calculate and administer doses of insulin in an "artificial pancreas." -eff.org
We joke about someday having to jailbreak our own organs, but we're basically already there.
An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk. Then its maker refused repairs.
Mandatory "hide the opt-out if there's even an opt-out at all" "AI" trash that is shoved into everything from operating systems to browsers. It's less than useless, outright malicious in both intent and practice in many cases, and dumps more carbon into the air just so the "AI" trash doesn't seem like a sunk cost investment for venture capitalists.
Recently?
How a lawyer in America got jailed for legally fighting against(and defeating) an American multi-national oil company that polluted the Amazon and more importantly harmed the lives and health of the locals with the pollution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtIAZMqrZE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_DonzigerDonziger’s story is heartbreaking and infuriating, and I’m continually disappointed that so few people are familiar with his story and what the courts did to him. It’s one of the clearest examples of judicial corruption and the power and benefits that are afforded to corporations and almost never extended to the people fighting for what’s right and just.
Ugh I dunno if I just noticed it but the spread of "only x small payments!" financing for the smallest purchases can't be a good sign
Health Insurance that covers next to nothing but costs a fortune anyway.
☝️ recently got a covid test that based on all my research beforehand, it should have been covered except for $10 I would pay.
Jokes on me, it actually cost me $200 they charged to my credit card two weeks later. I didn't even get to know the price at the time I needed medical care.
Sometimes other countries make fun of America for things they don't understand. Not on this one, America deserves every bit of mocking it gets for it's medical coverage atrocity.
Microloans, also called microfinances. Very popular in developing countries in South Asia, and also the same thing that is responsible for the suicide epidemic of farmers in India. With high interest rates and fixed time-period constraints, they're the most cruel and fucked up things to ever exist, they're worse than indentured serfdom.
To be fair, usury is much older plague than capitalism, but it's been one of capitalism roots, and capitalism cranked it up incredibly.
My boss once said to a group of new joinees including me," Eventually you will be able to afford subscription to all the streaming services."
Some random company that sells fruits overthrowing another country's government; it's so ludicrous I'd say it's too silly to be the plot of a serious movie and like no no, actually this ludicrous story is actually real.
I once read that there are some states in the U.S. where firefighters don't put out fires in houses that don't pay a monthly subscription.
Your mom always expects me to leave money on the dresser in the morning.
