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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How would that ruin it?

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

In a purely profit business, you price things based on how much people are willing to pay for them.

That translates into things never being priced as being “worth it”, but almost worth it, and definitely not worth it for people with tighter budget