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How Gen Z is doomed to own nothing, but pay forever
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REFERENCES & RESOURCES
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy - https://amzn.to/3PQEixP
The Average Consumer Pays Nearly $1,000 a Year for Subscriptions — What Do You Pay? - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-consumer-pays-nearly-1-190009547.html
BMW drops plan to charge a monthly fee for heated seats - https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863258/bmw-cancel-heated-seat-subscription-microtransaction
John Deere faces U.S. lawsuit over farmers' ability to repair tractors - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260895/john-deere-ftc-lawsuit-right-to-repair-tractors
The erosion of personal ownership - https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22387601/smart-fridge-car-personal-ownership-internet-things
My Printer Is Extorting Me - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/home-printer-digital-rights-management-hp-instant-ink-subscription/672913/
27 Buy Now, Pay Later Statistics - https://explodingtopics.com/blog/bnpl-stats
2024 Buy Now, Pay Later Trends Study - https://www.fool.com/money/research/buy-now-pay-later-statistics/
The Downsides of Using ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/your-money/buy-now-pay-later-loans.html
Liberty Street Economics - https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/09/who-uses-buy-now-pay-later/#:~:text=While%20lower%20income%20individuals%20are,more%20likely%20to%20use%20it
Millennials had it bad financially, but Gen Z may have it worse - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/22/gen-z-millennials-debt-inflation/
How Does Gen Z Student Debt Compare with Millennials’? - https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2022/aug/how-does-gen-z-student-debt-compare-millennials
The cost of living has led us into record debt. What does that mean for Canadians? - https://thehub.ca/2024/01/30/mark-hill-the-cost-of-living-has-led-us-into-record-debt-what-does-that-mean-for-canadians/
The average millennial will spend over $200,000 on rent before buying a house — but Gen Z will spend even more - https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-millennials-gen-z-renters-spend-expensive-cities-2018-5
The Biggest Wealth Transfer In History is Happening Right Now. Are You Ready? - https://medium.com/@moneytent/the-biggest-wealth-transfer-in-history-is-happening-right-now-are-you-ready-1e7e8c9a7104
The 'wealth transfer' from boomers won't save Gen X and millennials - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/generational-wealth-transfer-baby-boomers-cant-save-gen-x-millennials-rcna128099
Eat Now, Pay Later: Going Into Debt for Food - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/dining/buy-now-pay-later-loans-groceries.html?searchResultPosition=1
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An introduction to The Authoritarian Personality study.
Timestamps:
0:00 Fascisticus Potentialicus
01:51 Introduction
05:07 Defining Fascism / Ur-Fascism
07:03 Antisemitism and Ethnocentrism
11:31 Fascism, Conservatism and Religion
16:09 The Authoritarian Personality
23:18 Conclusions
This month's episode of What the Theory? is an introduction to the Authoritarian Personality study, carried out by T.W. Adorno (a key member of the "Frankfurt School" and central force in the development of Critical Theory), Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950.
Following the end of World War 2, these four psychologists were interested in finding out what had motivated so many supposedly ordinary citizens in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe) to participate in the awful designs of the fascist regimes that had taken hold there.
Eventually, they laid out what they called The Authoritarian Personality, a set of personality traits which they argued might make some people more susceptible to fascist ideology than others.
This is what they found out...
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