90: The Subscription Economy
We are living in a time where it feels like we don’t own anything anymore — not our phones, not our entertainment. Everything is a subscription, everything renews automatically, and everything in our lives comes with a monthly fee.
In this episode of Money Feels, Alyssa and Bridget explore the emotional, psychological, and financial reality of living in the subscription economy, and why so many of us feel like we’re leasing our lives one tiny charge at a time.
We unpack how subscriptions prey on convenience, loneliness, perfectionism, and the desire to optimize our lives. We talk about why it…
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