Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices

• Apollo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …what is that supposed to be?

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    • Meganium97@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I imagine it’s you portrayed as the soyjak but it’s so well drawn I can’t imagine its effectiveness

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        WTF is a soyjak

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    • Apollo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How I imagine your brain works based on your previous comment.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You think my brain works…like a windmill?

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• Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Piracy is a capitalism problem.

  People don’t pay what it actually costs, people pay that + the revenues the company brings home. And that’s a lot now.

  Operating at a loss is a standard practice that is not only meant to drive user adoption, but to (whoops!) remove competition with smaller bags to pay losses from. So we end up with a few services that do whatever they want.

  This is not okay.

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• gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  boo-hoo-hoo poor mega corps, I’m pretty sure the CEOs of these companies were paying by their own money the price difference of the true cost and the decreased subscription price of all the customers and they will walk out poorer. Not with millions in their pockets.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    boo-hoo-hoo poor mega corps

    I’m genuinely baffled that you interpreted any of what I said as garnering sympathy for streaming platforms or their CEOs. They don’t need your sympathy, nor does it have anything to do with what I said.

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    • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m genuinely baffled that you interpreted any of what I said as garnering sympathy for streaming platforms or their CEOs.

      then explain me why you mentioned the “operating at a loss” thing. What does it prove in your argument? What does this offer in the dialog and please explain me if the CEO of a said company which is “operating at a loss” walks out with millions in their pockets or not. And also what will happen in the owner of a small business which is also operating at a loss. Then compare these two “operating at a loss” and tell me if they are even slightly comparable.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The point is that the company has to be profitable. It’s not complicated. The point of companies is to be profitable. If they’re not profitable, they cease to exist, which isn’t good for anyone. Those are the only options they have: become profitable or cease to exist. I know you people like to think money is just conjured into existence with magic but that’s not the way anything works.

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