Just another crazy thought.
Hardware: You could use your hardware any way you want. It is your property when you pay for it. You can hack your car or washing machine, you could study how it made and works, you could give it to a friend and even if you use some patent to modify it for personal use, no industrial company who made it or own a patent would not care about you at all. People who made hardware are mostly right wing. Hardware people make most money creating things.
Software: You are not an owner even if you pay for it. You could not study or change it to fit your needs (opensource is different, I'll discuss it later.). Using software you literally became a slave to manufacturer from many sides. You can't give it to friend, even if you don't need it any more. If you do something with software that software manufacturer don't like, you will be prosecuted. People who made software are mostly left wing. All above also applicable to music, movies, books, etc. Software people make most money selling copies, trading your personal data, or pushing some agenda.
OpenSource: It is still a land of freedom and meritocracy. Rights are still there. (check Eric S Raymond, f.e.) But right now there is huge campaign to take over OpenSource software by SJW and other crap. They began from pushing that dumb CoC's (Code of Conduct) that have absolutely nothing common with the way opensource is working. Nobody cares are you gay or ultimate nazi if you write good code. Than, they use that CoC's to throw away high-ranked coders who said something "wrong" somewhere on their personal blogs. Now they push censorship and all that SJW crap into seized projects. Good example is Mozilla. They throw away the top people who just made a good browser, add a lot of surveillance and advertising crap, made codebase so huge and complex, that no single person can modify or throw out all that shit out of browser. And they even implemented pure censorship (check how Google Safe Browsing works), as always "for your safety". And they even already tested it - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1319310, http://thegoodnewstoday.org/proof-google-censors-conservative-and-pro-trump-articles/, etc.
And that left-software people with their ideas also try to invade right-hardware world. You are already could find a tractor and other machinery you are not allowed to repair and you already could not replace the OS or even just delete some software on your phone. They even try to invade DIY communities using their crap about diversity, pushing to the community their freaks and queers who can't hammer a single nail but cry very loud about bad words and wrong thoughts they hear from some (usually the best) DIY's. Even that small uncontrolled communities are under attack.
left-software crowd now tries to completely overtake all possible media, thinking that it is their property. However, internet itself is still hardware and there still good old possibility to make it fit our needs or create something they could not control.
Am I totally crazy, or there is something?
PS: Comments by kind fellow below lead me to the thought that highly probale. their current goal is literally Existence-as-a-Service (EaaS) for all humanity, just like their most favorite business model, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
More generally, kind of like different business models.
Some models favor the user, some favor the business.
Software-as-a-service was a great model for those businesses.
They might tell you it is better for the users; this could be debated.
Like you mention, there are many drawbacks to the user.
Now certain factions, mostly representing central authoritarian control, want more things to operate in this manner.
"You won't own anything, you'll have no privacy, and you will like it".
Owning property is great for the individual.
Renting everything is great for central authority (who now own everything).
Property taxes are the soft erosion of that right.
"Great Reset" ideas are the hard erosion of property rights.
TPBT would now also like to sell you your immune system back to you on a 3 month schedule.
"Here's your new immune update, it fixes some issues with the last one, cures the common cold, oh yeah we have some other items in there as well but don't worry. Sign the 666 page terms of service and if you don't it's ok but you can't buy and sell anything.
Gig economy vs. Salary employee with benefits or pension (haha) is similar.
Central authoritarians love the gig economy model since it is much cheaper and givers them more authority.
None of these changes really make life better for the individual, but give TPTB more power, control, money, loosh, etc.
The new models might be ok if the central authority running the show was benevolent and not insane criminals. We know that usually isn't the case.
This is exact description of implementation of software-as-a-service model in real world. That's what all that insane managers dream about.
I always thought that property tax is literally state slave rent. It shoud not exist in sane world.
Interesting, that they try to remove master/slave words from language. SJW bastards massively attack opensource project to remove or replace all master/slave terms from code and standards. Allegedly, it insult blacks who allegedly could wish to join the project but so insulted that they can't, but reall goal is to remove the concept of master/slave from minds. If you have no concept of master/slave, you will have no ability to understand your real status.
It is never OK, even if central authority is good guys. Because once good guys could become bad ones or could be defeated and replaced by bad guys. If everything is software-as-a-service, there will be no way to get out.
So, the main conclusion from all that crazy observation is "never agree with software-as-a-service model".
Fuck! Highly probale, their current goal is Existence-as-a-Service for all humanity.