It may be trying to estimate something like the "real value" (difficult to measure as it's very subjective) versus cost. In that case, the question at hand is:

It may be trying to estimate something like the "real value" (difficult to measure as it's very subjective) versus cost. In that case, the question at hand is: "Are consumers getting more real benefits per dollar spent?" I'd argue that there's another dimension to the conversation which is granularity. Most of the streaming services don't allow purchasing a single show (except for YouTube, Amazon Prime and a few others), and for the services that do let you buy a single show it's way too expensive for a series. If you try to buy an entire season of a single show it'll often cost you the price of 6 months of the streaming service.