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the cherry on top of all of this is that
patrick realizes everyone around him is
going through exactly the same thing
everyone is so wrapped up in their own
mask their extreme behavior can't help
but unravel
thanks patrick
this struggle to escape the perfectly
crafted public persona has ended up with
a painting right here this painting is
part of a collection called men of the
cities as you can see all these
paintings faces are hidden away with
their colours being a bland black and
white capturing the feeling of
atomization and the need to escape the
confines of their surroundings which is
why these paintings serve as the perfect
metaphor for what the film is trying to
warn us of
now all of this stuff is building up to
the climax of the film where bateman is
thrown into a full-on breakdown where
his psyche becomes fully psychotic
feeding a cat into an atm machine
shooting police and anyone in his way
[Music]
but with all the overtop explosions the
people he shoots never actually dying
and the surroundings staying exactly the
same the film points to the fact that
this is just bateman's pent-up reverie of
aggression and defiance of convention or
in other words it's an extreme fantasy
to imagine a world where he can release
his extreme shadow self in the real
world this repression reaches its climax
with bateman's final phone call where his
breakdown finally becomes visible to all
of those around him
patrick i can't hear you what am i doing
she's sounding so big
and yet the sad truth is no one cares
patrick's lawyer doesn't recognize him
don't you know who i am
i'm not davis i'm patrick bateman
the people around him continue the same
superficial conversations now where do
we have reservations
i mean i'm not really hungry but i'd
like to have reservations someplace the
people around him are indifferent the
culture uncaring and the cycle of
repression repeats itself this blunt
ending is in a way more disturbing than
any of the murderous fantasies because
it's real all the repression masks all
the lives of quiet desperation is just
part and parcel of life in the modern
world where we've been taught that
people who think differently are a
danger to society and then they must be
censored into silence where we are numb
to a drab deluge of hollow meaningless
plastic culture that shows us nothing
but vicious hostility to anyone trying
to express authenticity the whole point
of this film is to show the fundamental
importance of self-expression and human
connection something that nihilistic
materialism just can't replace we need
friendship love and community all the
things that the radical atomization and
isolation of modern life destroys which
is why american psycho serves as an
essential message a message telling us
to rethink the destruction of the
institutions and traditions that
supported the very things that foster
prosperity and happiness but sadly this
is a message that has become all too
forgotten
title-You Will Never Own Anything (But You'll Pay Forever)
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You will never own anything. The death of ownership is here, and the subscription model industry has exploded since 2014. Buy now, pay later is booming, and debt is on the rise. Gen Z are the guinea pigs in this new experiment. Today, Generation Z is in record levels of debt while earning far less than the generations before them.
So let's take a look at the day-to-day life of someone growing up in the anti-ownership economy. However young or old you are, the first thing most people do when they wake up is look at their phones. Over 80% of people do this in the first 15 minutes of the day. For some people it's just an alarm clock, but most are plugging into the digital world as soon as possible.
The smartphone has become the starting point for nearly everyone's day, and it was also what first enabled the subscription model to really take off. Before their meteoric rise in both functionality and price, phones generally weren't something you bought through a rolling contract. Some people paid a monthly bill for access to the cellular network, but most of the time that wasn't for the physical device itself. Instead, before smartphones came around, the devices were cheap and more disposable. People would pay upfront for phones, as well as all other tech products. This even extended to software, music, and other products that are really just packets of data. People expected to pay once for something, then own it forever. That was how the rest of the world worked.
When smartphones and high-speed internet came along, they changed the entire game. Phones became high-tech gateways into the wider world of services. They also got a lot more sophisticated and expensive, pushing them out of reach for most consumers. Of course, some of this was due to higher production costs, but a much larger part of the price hike was because tech companies realized they could justify these much higher prices. If that wasn't enough, it gave mobile phone companies a huge opportunity to change their entire business model. Instead of just selling the phones as individual devices, they could push forward the idea of paying for both the device and the network in one single contract. It was just one small step for consumers, and for many of them it was a better option—instead of paying hundreds upfront, they could pay it off over a few years, keeping it generally affordable. And this didn't seem like much of a big change either, because the data, texts, and calls were already often a monthly payment.
But why were these companies so intent on pushing this kind of business model? Well, the author Terry Pratchett came up with a classic example that shows why being poor generally means that you end up paying far more for the exact same things. Imagine that a really good pair of boots—the kind that will last you a decade—cost $100. A man on minimum wage likely couldn't afford all of that at once. He can't spend the time saving up for them either, as he needs the shoes now so that he can work in the first place. So he goes for the cheaper option: a $10 pair of boots that don't really keep his feet dry and only last around 6 months to a year at best. Over time, this man will spend more money on his boots than the rich man who just bought the nice ones in the first place. Meanwhile, despite paying more, he'll still have wet feet.
A subscription model is like an even worse version of this. Imagine that for just $3.99 a month, the man could subscribe to "Boots Plus." They provide a service which gives you access to a pair of their cheap boots, as well as monthly repairs, maintenance, and replacements as well. While the initial cost is even less for the service, over time it'll mean paying about $48 a year for boots. Over a decade, this will cost nearly five times more than the expensive boots ever did upfront.
So it's pretty obvious now why companies are all trying to switch their customers onto the subscription model. It simply makes them far more money, and there's a whole host of other hidden tricks and benefits for them.