Why Buy When You Can Rent? Culture, Clothes, Cars… The Consumer Redefined

“Pay a monthly fee. Rent your object of desire. Return it when it bores or becomes useless. It’s easy, on-demand, noncommittal. Consumerism is being redefined for the mobile age, and the model is spreading among professionals and families in ways that were little anticipated, even by the venture capitalists funding this new era of cooperative capitalism.”