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The hell are you talking about? Premium is $13.99/mo, removed all ads, includes YouTube Music with all it’s licensed music, among other things. What exactly does your math represent? The amount of hours you’d need to watch to generate revenue equal to the cost of the service? That’s a ridiculous thing to base your calculation on. If you think watching ads is such a better value than Premium then watch the damn ads?

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AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m saying that they charge you way more money to avoid ads than they get from the ads because consumers have learned to expect such prices from professional streaming services, while the price has no actual justification other than that people are ignorant enough to pay it.

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- neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You are describing supply and demand. Not much more to it than that. Demand for ad free services is greater than demand from advertisers. What’s your point?
  
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  - AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why are you assuming that supply and demand is automatically an ethical system for pricing? Just look at American medication prices.
    
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    neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Except American medication prices a) aren’t supply and demand; they involve manufactured scarcity asking other serious problems and b) are a matter of life and death in many cases; they deal with necessities
    
    There are many things that should not be capitalist: education, healthcare, prisons, to make just a few
    
    The pricing of funny Internet videos et al is not one of those things, and it’s frankly inappropriate to make that comparison here. You think the ethics of lifesaving medication and YouTube videos are comparable? Gimme a break
    
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