The goal is to desensitize the general population into accepting thin clients instead of actual computers so that they can rent their OS as a cloud subscription.

This gives companies more control over content you consume plus your behaviours. It also gives governments more granular control over their citizens which is in vogue considering democracy is out and barbarism and force are back in.

The goal is to desensitize the general population into accepting thin clients

Shame on you, because Im in the thin client Hype for 2 years now

My backup PC and media center both run on 2015 thin Clients running Debian, they are really cheap, dont have any moving parts, draw 15w at most, and are Really space efficient

Define thin client please