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You don't have a need to watch current TV shows. You really don't.
by waterlesscloud 11y ago
You don't have a need to watch current TV shows.
You really don't.
- Goronmon 11y agoWe don't need much of anything other than some minimum amount of food, water and the ability to sleep somewhere. Roads, clothes, education, healthcare, music, etc are all optional.
- chris_wot 11y agoYou don't need to travel on the bus, you can walk. You don't need to eat with white people if you are black. You don't need to get married if you aren't heterosexual. You really don't.
- res0nat0r 11y agoComparing these issues above to justify why you should be able to watch Game of Thrones for free ins't a very good argument.
- chris_wot 11y agoWhy so? Not allowing me to go to the movies because I'm an Australian would be considered racist. Why is it more acceptable to do so with streaming content?
- JupiterMoon 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs Love/belonging includes feeling a part of society. In today world where culture is global (especially for so called millennials) consuming that culture is part of feeling that you are part of society. And most people are very happy (and very able) to pay for that. So why not sell/rent it to them?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoBut you do have social needs, that for civilized humans take form of the need to participate in your local culture. Local culture, which today is heavily based on current TV shows. Thus being up to date with TV shows becomes a need.