None of those qualify as “potential-ownership”, they are a shared-access resource.
Is there something about “potential-ownership” that gives it a different meaning to “an item that I could potentially buy and thereby become the owner of”?
My recollection and interpretation was buying/objects not renting/services. Picking an object like a jet ski that is probably more often rented than bought was probably a misleading choice of example, sorry.
Anyway, it’s not up to me to clarify anymore—gwern found the original quote, so you can debate the interpretation of that rather than of my half-recollected paraphrasing. :-)
The comment I was replying to said
None of those qualify as “potential-ownership”, they are a shared-access resource.
Is there something about “potential-ownership” that gives it a different meaning to “an item that I could potentially buy and thereby become the owner of”?
I’m confused. How are jet skis relevantly different from apples?
From the context, roystgnr meant renting jet skis for a day, rather than owning and maintaining them. You can hardly do that with apples.
No, really.
(emphasis added)
Buy, not rent.
I interpreted it as buying a service, not an object, but it’s up to roystgnr to clarify.
My recollection and interpretation was buying/objects not renting/services. Picking an object like a jet ski that is probably more often rented than bought was probably a misleading choice of example, sorry.
Anyway, it’s not up to me to clarify anymore—gwern found the original quote, so you can debate the interpretation of that rather than of my half-recollected paraphrasing. :-)