No need to make too big a deal
of it, but this week, the cable company charged me five dollars just to let me
pay my own bill for internet service.
And I was also thinking about how I rent my modem from them and may be
paying ten times what the modem is worth because of that, which is absurd,
though if I were stronger I could have bought a different modem. But I think that is the idea, and it is
interesting to think about with apartment rent gouging, too. If our system suddenly became a rent to own
system where your past rent was credited to you as going toward the cost of a
place to live, I think people would freak out and talk about communism. And yet with the modem situation, the
absurdity of people paying more than something is worth and still not owning it
is easily apparent.
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