I’m tired of the rental economy

I am getting so tired of corporate greed and pricing and not allowing me to own stuff and the gotcha’s and hidden fees and expenses that keep showing up. I want to just buy something and have it work. I don’t want to have to rent my music or my games or anything else with monthly or yearly subscriptions. I want my data to be mine and once I have it I can put it on anything I want without having to pay yet more money to whoever thinks they can get away with charging me it.

Everything that goes through my phone is data, yet I have to have separate plans for voice, data, text…..etc. yet they don’t give you a tube of vaseline with the phone. A text message should actually be less taxing on the network then a voice message yet the phone carriers convinced everyone that paying 20 cents a text message is acceptable.

My friend wants to use his phone as a sort of cellular modem when he is in areas with no wireless access. he has a data plan for his phone and can get the internet on his phone but moving that data over to his computer requires yet more money on top of his cellular plan. Why? the data is already at the phone, why can’t I just move the bits over to a computer through their overpriced proprietary connector cable.

Much of my software is moving towards a yearly subscription model, and it is set up such that is you don’t renew the subscription every year you lose the use of your existing version as well since the liscence expires.

I live in a fairly dry area where we are encouraged to conserve water, so I try to conserve. However then the local water company doesn’t generate the revenue since I am not using as much water and they raise my rates.

This kind of stuff really annoys me and most people just allow it to happen making it the norm therefore telling all the companies that this sort of structure is acceptable.