Its funny how they destroyed something incredibly basic that humans dealt with thousands of years ago, and then reinvented it stupider.
Because borrowing your neighbor's tools is one of the most common benefits of having a good community, and its how people used to be able to afford more things by not having to buy every single thing on their own:
I don't need a level, Levi down the block has one and because we live in a good, high trust society I can walk in his open garage any time and borrow it without issue
But now its with a bunch of people you can't trust, you don't like or want to talk to, and it costs on top of it.
I've been browsing Tulu's (the rental kiosk in the tweet) website. The only real tool it rents out is a power drill, which is probably all a big-city pod person needs to assemble their IKEA furniture. Everything else they can bitch at their landlord to fix.
The real question is why would you rent a waffle maker or an air fryer? How clean is it going to be when it's your turn?
A scam. "You fuck it up, you own it," likely at twice the original cost. It's like a version of "rent-to-own" which of course is designed to fuck over poor people by charging them double the price for furniture and appliances if anyone decides to rent something for the full term.
Its funny how they destroyed something incredibly basic that humans dealt with thousands of years ago, and then reinvented it stupider.
Because borrowing your neighbor's tools is one of the most common benefits of having a good community, and its how people used to be able to afford more things by not having to buy every single thing on their own:
But now its with a bunch of people you can't trust, you don't like or want to talk to, and it costs on top of it.
I've been browsing Tulu's (the rental kiosk in the tweet) website. The only real tool it rents out is a power drill, which is probably all a big-city pod person needs to assemble their IKEA furniture. Everything else they can bitch at their landlord to fix.
The real question is why would you rent a waffle maker or an air fryer? How clean is it going to be when it's your turn?
Renting cooking utensils? That's fucking disgusting lol
A scam. "You fuck it up, you own it," likely at twice the original cost. It's like a version of "rent-to-own" which of course is designed to fuck over poor people by charging them double the price for furniture and appliances if anyone decides to rent something for the full term.