Re: When I was a kid.....
"The car industry now seems hell-bent on pushing you in the same direction. Just about every TV advert for cars now seems to want to "sell" you some form of personal contract hire, where you don't own the car, have no rights over it, have minimal use of it (some contracts are for 6000 miles p/a. ffs) and after your lease is up you have to go and lease another one - or pay a small fortune to keep the one you have)"
"Now"? That stuff has been going on for more than 20 years with cars. Perhaps they are pushing it more now, but it isn't new.