There’s a subtle shift from own to rent happening that places cost and convenience over freedom, as you are being lead to pay for consumption as you use it, rather than buying the object itself outright only to have it sit dormant most of the time.

While this seems efficient, what happens when you don’t own a car because you hail an autonomous taxi whenever you need one, thinking you are green, and chaos breaks out and you decide to flee the city only to discover you’ve been placed on a blacklist because of your outspoken views on the dictator running the fascist regime where you live?

First they converted the population from landowners to apartment dwellers, and next they’ll shift most of us from drivers to passengers, meaning we’ll have to choice but to go wherever they want us to go.

And they want us to go to hell.