- Pay for luxury service
- Service gets more expensive
- Keep paying for service
- Service gets more expensive
- Complain about cost, goto 1
It’s hard to have pity for people who do this, especially if enough people stopped, the service would get cheaper.
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woop_woop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
zelifcam@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
What a first world take on this, it’s not a requirement at all. Parent your fucking children. My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like. We could drop it tomorrow if our budget needed to be trimmed.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A fairly aggressive comment. I’m not the person you replied to, but as a parent with young ones, there are times where TV is literally an enormous rescuer. For example, just a couple of months ago, the entire family got hit with an extremely nasty stomach bug. I could barely walk without needing to either throw up or shit my pants. Being able to setup a little triage center in our living room for us and the kids, where we napped and watched movies all day, made that experience at least mostly bearable.
There are numerous other cases where modern technology makes parenting far easier. Back in the day, communities were much closer knit and extended family lived within the neighborhood, so parents had a lot more backup to help in those situations. Nowadays, that kind of support network is increasingly rare for parents to have. So yes, it’s a luxury, but it should be an accessible luxury. Private companies are free to do what they want, doesn’t mean we can’t complain about it while begrudgingly continuing to pay for it.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 7 months ago
4 kids. Never paid for cable or Disney or any streaming service.. there are other paths
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You got libraries where you are?
Mine does online rentals for digital products (movies, TV, audiobooks, ebooks).
oo1@kbin.social 7 months ago
some of them might even have these papery things with brothers grimm or hans christian andersen stories in them.
Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Edit: Never thought I’d get so much anger and hate from people in a Disney+ post. I don’t have children and I don’t have Disney.
Sorry you went through this. Feel free to report any agressive comment, hopefully the mods will act upon them.
malloc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Imagine being so poor you can’t buy the physical media, rip it to your media server, and stream at anytime.
Lol, enjoy your shitty subpar streaming service that serves media at less than 4K while paying increasing monthly costs.
NoneYa@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I mean it’s enabling Disney to do it, isn’t it?
It’s a luxury service. It’s not a necessity. If it were a necessity, I wouldn’t blame other customers because everyone needs it. But when you keep giving money to a company who keeps raising the price without doing anything to benefit you, you can’t tell me that’s not enabling these anti-consumerist practices.
Going back to the Disney parks, with the price increases, they have actually taken away benefits like no black out dates, forcing members into reservations, and more. And yet people still pay for this…?
Yeah, it is a shame for the rest of us that don’t put up with this and vote with our wallets because it means nothing.