rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that’s building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you’re paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense
Because nobody knows for sure how much a show will be worth in the future and everyone is afraid of losing or wasting potential money.
It all stems from corporate greed Loan out the cash cow until you can learn how to make your own cheese. I genuinely thought Disney+, peacock, and paramount streaming would fail but the problem is also people willing to pay for their fragmented service. Even HBOmax, which I genuinely liked, becamejust MAX because they started loaning out their OWN IPs for money. So dumb.
At least we got to enjoy the early Netflix era around 2010 before it all became crap.
Because profit. And weak consumer culture just accepts it as normal. Smart consumers are left to look for other means, or are left to sail the high seas.
I was a huge supporter of Netflix when it launched. Easy to use, affordable, and lots of selection. As the streaming service has splintered and shows disappear without warning I find myself back on the high seas.
As Gabe once said:
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,
If you make it harder to stream and keep up with what’s where then piracy it’s no surprise people will ultimately choose the latter. Though the price thing has gotten crazy too. Multiple streaming services can now equal or eclipse cable TV prices… And yeah, you can come and go but again that comes back to the service issue. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to have to evaluate monthly which streaming services I need then drop the ones I don’t and add the ones I do.
and where is the office for streaming now? why can’t they at least all have the same shit, like with music streaming, and compete on features and price, rather than this absolute transient hell where it’s ridiculously stark how none of anyone involved cares for art or culture
Peacock
Why can’t they have the same shit? Because each studio is trying to monopolize their best properties instead of playing ball on neutral ground again. The last time they did that it was Netflix and they lost out on enough profits to make Netflix one of the biggest studios in Hollywood.
Because the goal of capitalism is to chase infinite profits and raze the earth in the process. Providing you with convenience or value or helping any human is not a part of this process.
Be honest and accurate please.
Razing the earth is not a goal of capitalism.
Capitalism does not give a fuck about processes. Its goal is simply money/wealth/value above all else. The consequence of the goal is not the goal.
If your statement became the new message of an anti-capitalist movement, and that would be awesome please do it, it would give the masses an easy lever for the powers that be to utilize against you.
A truth I hold is that the masses can make changes. It happens all the time by tacit approval. Simply not acting against something enough allows it to continue. But it takes numbers. Where when and how much changes, but the amount needed is always the same: enough IS enough
We the people only have power in numbers. Thats the only tool we get. If you get enough of us acting in unison we become a mob. And that is as much power as we will ever have against the powers that be. If the mob exceeds enough by enough it wont stop until it dissipates or is destroyed.
What im getting to(admitedly probably badly, apple oh geez) is that messy messages with inaccurate inclusions gives opponents to the message an easy tool to get people to dismiss it. Dont give them that tool. Because people can be very great, but en masse we are simple.
It takes people who dont understand a subject, acting for or against it, to make a change from the people. And if you dont know about something on your own, you are unlikely to trust a message that someone points to and says "you are wrong here, why should they believe you?” simple people have a pass or fail mentality when it comes to things they dont know enough about. It is why its so hard to keep people from breaking away from a movement.
Another truth i hold is that conservatives will always have an advantage because of the nature of that which i know vs that which is new. If the message never differs people will fall in line with accepting it eventually. And being conservative that means they will always have the advantage of the devil you know. New things will have unpredictable consequences. (Also predictable ones!) And thats enough of a barrier to keep people away from them until its been known long enough to be less risky.
