Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 8 months agoThat the market actually responds to consumer desires.
Unfortunately with the excessively oversized conglomerates that do vertical integration in an ever increasing number of industries, there is only the illusion of choice left for consumers. Not using any type of media (books, movies, etc.) is not actually a solution or a viable choice. So consumers are left with no choice but to what is offered, and the offering is not dictated by their desires but by the companies who will screw you over to increase already obscene profits.
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 8 months ago
My guy, I'm talking about not paying for Netflix. Social disconnect? You're so dramatic. I haven't had Netflix in years.
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
You’re cutting one…but now they’re all doing the shit that made you quit Netflix, and you have no (legal) way of getting access to pop culture without endorsing the shitty behaviour that doesn’t listen to consumer desires. That it why “voting with your wallet” doesn’t work, because there is no alternative to vote for with your wallet. So unless you keep endorsing the shitty corporate behaviour, you’re pulling the plug on basically everything, and that is definitely a disconnection from many social interactions since you’ll have no fuckijg clue what they’re talking about.
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 8 months ago
You don't have to watch the latest, hippest new show of streaming services so participate in society. I can't believe I'm even having this conversation, truthfully I'm baffled that I need to repudiate this.
But despite my sanity, I will engage with it... You know people still have dvd players, right? And libraries still exist? To be clear, I'm just trying to rebuke the absurd claim that you have "no way of getting access to poop culture" without streaming services.
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Hos do you think people and libraries obtain their material? That still puts money in the hands of people you’re trying not to give money. Every time you borrow something from the library, they pay a little to the copyright owner of that material.