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Matt Evans

From Garmin to Whoop and Polar, the rise in fitness tech subscriptions is a sign that one day we'll own nothing

Whoop Strap 3.0.

Sometimes, when I’m in my local gym, I think about a quote I read a few years ago: “You’ll own nothing, and be happy”.

Its origins are murky, but as far as I can tell it’s paraphrased from an essay by Danish politician Ida Auken, and it’s about the possibility of a sharing economy. It postulates what might happen if the author lived in a city in which none of the inhabitants owned anything, and everything was shared. Just like a gym.

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