Ford upending the US car market

[SWoll]

DodgyGeezer said:

DonkeyApple said:

It's interesting how the age of owning nothing appears to be looming.

A colleague of mine is working on a project where City employers offer a package that includes rented accommodation, car lease, media subscriptions, club and flight memberships and 'dial a mummy' help service!!! Sounds insane to me but they're convinced, as seem to be some employers, that modern grads struggle to sort all this stuff and will leap at having it all done for them and bent over for the privilege.

that sounds positively dystopian

And as above, they'll lap it up in droves. Exactly where we are headed I have no doubt.

[DonkeyApple]

SWoll said:

DodgyGeezer said:

DonkeyApple said:

It's interesting how the age of owning nothing appears to be looming.

A colleague of mine is working on a project where City employers offer a package that includes rented accommodation, car lease, media subscriptions, club and flight memberships and 'dial a mummy' help service!!! Sounds insane to me but they're convinced, as seem to be some employers, that modern grads struggle to sort all this stuff and will leap at having it all done for them and bent over for the privilege.

that sounds positively dystopian

And as above, they'll lap it up in droves. Exactly where we are headed I have no doubt.

I can't get my head round it but he describes it as an instant 'made in Chelsea' turnkey lifestyle for grads who don't have the right parents. The day they start work they have a home in the right place and access to all the right venues.

[DodgyGeezer]

DonkeyApple said:

SWoll said:

DodgyGeezer said:

DonkeyApple said:

It's interesting how the age of owning nothing appears to be looming.

A colleague of mine is working on a project where City employers offer a package that includes rented accommodation, car lease, media subscriptions, club and flight memberships and 'dial a mummy' help service!!! Sounds insane to me but they're convinced, as seem to be some employers, that modern grads struggle to sort all this stuff and will leap at having it all done for them and bent over for the privilege.

that sounds positively dystopian

And as above, they'll lap it up in droves. Exactly where we are headed I have no doubt.

I can't get my head round it but he describes it as an instant 'made in Chelsea' turnkey lifestyle for grads who don't have the right parents. The day they start work they have a home in the right place and access to all the right venues.

that said I guess the concept is no different to places like Port Sunlight (except, IIRC, the person concerned had social values and was a philanthropist)