We've been sleepwalking into this in small ways for years. Auto leasing rather than purchasing, software subscription instead of buying it once and owning it, subscribing to your music source. Hell, some auto makers are even talking about having certain features be subscription based! This has all been with our consent, even our preference.

You can have it all... in monthly payments for the rest of your fucking life. Now get to work to pay for your lifestyle, slave. Can't/Don't want to work? Don't worry, the government will 'take care' of you, over in this louse-infested gulag 'state housing'.