Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours
&gt; <i>&quot;Worlds of scarcity are made out of things. Worlds of abundance are made out of dependencies.&quot;</i><p>A nice way of putting it, though I have a slightly different take - the &quot;worlds of abundance&quot; are made of <i>relationships</i>. And not in a good way.<p>When I own a bunch of files, I own a bunch of files. Nobody can mess with that. When I use Spotify, I&#x27;m in a <i>relationship</i> with Spotify the company. A relationship governed by a lengthy ToS, a relationship in which I&#x27;m at a disadvantage, but most importantly, it&#x27;s <i>another relationship to keep track of</i>.<p>Things you own are out of mind until you need them. Yes, that sometimes means you&#x27;ll fail to perform necessary maintenance in a timely fashion. But services are always on the top of your mind. They drain your bank account monthly or yearly. They have terms that keep changing. Their offerings keep changing. If you lose track of some, they&#x27;ll just keep draining your bank account. Services create cognitive burden. Personally, I&#x27;m already confused and unsure about just how many things I subscribe to, and I&#x27;m someone opposed to X as a Service as a matter of principle.<p>I just don&#x27;t want that many commercial relationships in my life. It&#x27;s tiring.