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woop_woop@lemmy.world 2 years ago- 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.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 2 years ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 years 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 2 years 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.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 2 years ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Your comment makes it sound like you can’t give it up because your kids use it too much. I didn’t validate anything.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 years ago
4 kids. Never paid for cable or Disney or any streaming service.. there are other paths
bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 years ago
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 years ago
Naw. Im a coughsailor.I have all the media.. my kids have seen it all commercial free.
main cost was storage, even that wasnt near these subscription fees
zelifcam@lemmy.world 2 years ago
oo1@kbin.social 2 years ago
I thought Disney was "nearly a requirement" . . . sounds to like those precious few who can manage without might have some useful information.
Typically this is what happens in a free competitive market, when a price goes up people look for substitutes.
And if they face constraints in moving to the substitute, they will benefit from help in loosening those constraints.
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You got libraries where you are?
Mine does online rentals for digital products (movies, TV, audiobooks, ebooks).
oo1@kbin.social 2 years ago
some of them might even have these papery things with brothers grimm or hans christian andersen stories in them.