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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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    AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And charging an exorbitant amount of money for ad-free videos because you have a monopoly isn’t how, exactly?
    
    In both cases, they charge what will maximize profits because it’s what consumers are willing to pay, not the actual value of the product. YouTube Premium doesn’t cost $500/mo because it’s not life-saving, but it’s still way more expensive than it should be because like patented medication, they have no real competitors.
    
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