Adobe announced the last perpetual update of Lightroom:
https://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/12/6-14-now-available-last-perpetual-update-of-lightroom.html
So, from now on, anyone wanting to use that program with recent cameras will have to rent it on a monthly subscription basis, same as other Adobe products.
In a way, software companies have become a form of extra-govenmental agency, that is able to tax us each year.
It happens with food too. Monsanto has done that with Roundup resistant crops which them require farmers to eschew native grains for single source seeds together with the weed suppressing environmental poisons.
We are addicted to doing ordinary things in complex ways and we become dependant of our "suppliers".
Even toilet paper! Who would think of tearing up news papers to provide toilet paper for a week. So it is made cushiony and non slidy, and folk only use ready made rolls.
Software is the worst. Programs used to be in kilobytes and now one often needs 0.2 GB of space.
So we become addicted to storage space!
Water is perfectly healthy out of most town faucets. One can remove any remaining noxious elelements by a simple inexpensive filter. But folk are addicted to buying waterc in plastic bottles which have in them leached outt platicisers with estrogenic and other biological effects.
In a gym, seeing water bottles is part of the atmosphere of health!
...Now I will read your article, Jerome.
Asher