>>1103449As far as I know it's a /biz/ meme.
Some guy from one of the big international financial institutions (IMF maybe?) gave a talk or they released a promo video or something where the take-away was the ongoing move to X-as-a-service is actually good and benefitial. So the promoted message was that eventually nobody was going to own anything, just rent everything and that this was somehow not dystopian but good somehow.