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Did I say anything about John Deere or about capitalism being flawless? Though there is a recent trend of companies selling things at a loss, game consoles are probably the biggest example, and planning on making it up in later sales and indeed while John Deere’s profit margins are up, they aren’t dramatically so as far as I can tell and it seems to have more to do with the general post pandemic trends. I totally support making it obvious when your buying vs renting vs acquiring a right of use to something though. I hate that for example I can click a button that says buy on Amazon and receive an ebook that I don’t in a practical sense own. My understanding of the John Deere, right to repair situation is that it’s similar.