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Food and clothing aren't services they are once off purchases that you own, these are more like buying the software and self hosting it than SaaS.

Electricity and water are heavily regulated and often government owned, not run by Silicon Valley cowboys.

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I don't want to make assumptions about your metabolism, but I find that I actually need to eat food on a fairly regular basis, to the point that I would not characterize it as a "once off" purchase.

When I need more food I'll make another once off purchase. If the place that had lunch today has boarded up it's windows tomorrow I'll just eat somewhere else. If I bought that food from a supermarket it doesn't disappear from my pantry when the supermarket closes down.

My food supply is a self organising network that can route around any single point of failure. This is about as far removed from SaaS as you can get.

If the company I buy food from decides to ghost all their customers with 30 minutes notice, I can walk a block in the opposite direction and buy food from a completely different company. And I can walk a block further and buy food from yet another company. Any of these companies vanishing into thin air would only cost me a 10 minutes of my time at most.

> Electricity and water are heavily regulated and often government owned, not run by Silicon Valley cowboys.

Yet, you still get Puerto Rico (electricity grid recovery failures of a few levels), and Flint (no clean water for you, because no).

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