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    5 hours ago

    Here’s an analogy: You can do your own gardening, or you can hire one of the two landscaping services in town.

    This sounds great, but these days, no matter who you hire, the people who show up 1) want to install a fountain and an advertisement billboard that will run off your water and electricity supply and 2) want the right to take what they like from your house by default, they’ll mysteriously “forget” and do it anyway even if you pay them not to.

    Furthermore, with their latest package, one of the landscaping companies are basically saying that if you don’t have a yard large enough for their fountain, you have to move house, which is only marginally better than the other one who will only work on gardens for houses they sold in the first place.

    (A previous version of this comment involved the word “lube”. I’m sure you can imagine the rest.)