We still say “my photos”, “my music”, “my files”. The words have survived. What they describe has quietly changed.
Each step was convenient, reasonable, welcome. Their accumulation is something else entirely, and nobody protested.
The real test is not what you own, but whether you can still leave, with your belongings, the day the terms change for reasons that have nothing to do with you. Most of us would fail it. Why?
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: What if we ended up owning nothing at all?
