• JshKlsn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ll need a subscription to flush my toilet at some point.

    It’s called a water bill. You pay it monthly, even if you don’t use any water!

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      1 year ago

      Idk, I pay for my utilities based on usage, and there are fees too. The fees maybe could be argued are subscriptions, but they’re not the majority of the bill

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure you get my point. Yes you have to pay the water bill to flush the toilet. There’s lots of other “subscriptions” for utilities like power, garbage collection, sewer. We call those bills not subscriptions and they’ve been around as long as modern society. I think we can take those for granted. Not in the same league as the subscription hell we’re seeing for online services these days.

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        1 year ago

        To that point you already pay for internet in the same way you pay for water. Paying for a specific website is like paying to use a toilet.

        Analogy stands.