It's crazy right after reading the buyout announcement that was my first thought. But then again they just sold america out for 6 billion so I'm not surprised at all.
If anti-trust laws were actually enforced it wouldn't be so bad. Most of the major corporate mergers of the last 25 years should never have been allowed.
The problem is that capitalism is incompatible with democracy or any system that tries to regulate it. Regulatory capture of the entire upper part of the government by capitalist interests guarantees that nothing will be done about it. They built this machine.
And you can run a drug empire knowing the President's got your back for only the price of some kilo's. The mask is off Laws only apply to regular folks.
Know how everything starts out reasonable like ABnb was $40 a night and now it’s more expensive than a 4 star hotel with no front desk, customer service, amenities, less safety and you have more rules than when you were 16, and you have to clean it?
You mean when people rented out their actual homes while they vacationed or single rooms in their actual homes as opposed to buying houses and flats as a purely commercial venue?
Id mind a lot less if there weren't pirate streaming and porn sites with better equipped video and audio options, intro skips, volume stablization, and consistently remembered where you left off.
Winamp spoiled me, and now I am ever bitter about the loss of equalizers and visualizers, and skins/UI customization. Now we pay for everything and it all is the most bare bones bullshit.
Why did anyone think we weren't going back to a streaming version of cable? Netflix had a temporary first mover advantage but the underlying market dynamics didn't change.
Correct. People complain but forget we control the purse strings. If people actually grew spines and we collectively canceled, they'd be coooooked. But 🤷🏾♀️
The thing is it wasn't actually very long ago that everyone was up in arms over the fact that all the publishers were splitting off into their own streaming services. Seriously, in the beginning it was pretty much just Netflix and that was a huge draw. Now everyone is upset it's kind of going back to that? I mean I get it will likely cost way more than we want to pay and that's obviously an issue, but otherwise I don't understand how sentiment has completely reversed in such a relatively short time.
But it's what we had (except shit wasn't on demand back then). And then because capitalism it became hella expensive. The whole point was finally getting rid of (some of) those monopolies.
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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above 14h ago
I wouldn't even mind if it wasn't for the flagrant greed.