• 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They’re not even slowly raising prices, they are very rapidly raising them. We’ve reinvented cable.

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      1 year ago

      Actually, cable didn’t even raise prices this fast. We’ve, unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with capitalism, created something worse.

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      1 year ago

      Perhaps they realized number of people that keeps paying versus number of people who cancel their subscription results in net positive revenue, so they are testing where the line is. All the while trying to fund some new content to get more people to come back.

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t doubt there’s collusion. It’s very convenient that none of these services are taking advantage of this and are seemingly raising all of their prices simultaneously.