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Subscribed to Death: How Everything-as-a-Service is Draining Your Wallet and Your Freedom

How Subscriptions Hijacked Ownership, Inflate Costs, and Turn Everyday Life Into a Rental Economy

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Subscribed to Death: How Everything-as-a-Service is Draining Your Wallet and Your Freedom

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What if you no longer owned anything—not your music, not your movies, not even your car’s heated seats? Subscribed to Death uncovers the hidden mechanics of the subscription economy that’s quietly reshaping how we live, spend, and surrender control.

In this razor-sharp exposé, discover how corporations have transformed everyday goods into perpetual paywalls. From fitness bikes that won’t function without monthly fees, to microwaves that demand logins, to cloud services that revoke your own files—this is not convenience. It’s engineered dependency.

With thirty hard-hitting chapters, this book traces how “everything-as-a-service” moved from software to streaming, cars, appliances, healthcare, banking, and even education. It reveals how micro-subscriptions, loyalty disguises, and behavioral nudges are weaponized to extract recurring revenue while eroding real ownership.

Drawing from real-world cases—Tesla’s locked features, Peloton’s pay-to-use hardware, Apple’s walled garden, and the surveillance baked into smart homes—Subscribed to Death maps a chilling trajectory where consumers pay more, own less, and risk everything with every monthly renewal.

This is the book Big Tech doesn’t want you to read. If you’ve ever felt like your wallet is leaking or wondered why nothing seems to work unless you’re logged in and paid up, you’re already living in the world it describes. Subscribed to Death is your guide to understanding how we got here—and how to fight back with real ownership.

Perfect for readers of digital economy exposés, tech skeptics, and anyone tired of being rented their own life.

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