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by asdfasdf1231 2341 days ago
The perverse incentives that nobody spell out: this is good for monopolies.

from soy farmers in brazil to local contractors bidding on government road work in new york. Everywhere the bigger company, that can have several more machines than it need for the daily operation, all leased with warranty, will destroy the competition that can't lease because of bad credit etc and so will have downtime/missed deadlines/lost harvests because they cannot get repairs on time.

Some big pockets benefit a LOT from all this, not just the dealers.

Also, the root cause for this was when car dealerships start doing this with cars and nobody cared.