> We seem to have gotten so far away from what sports are about(two teams competing to see who's best) that we've landed on milking as much money out of the fan

> We seem to have gotten so far away from what sports are about(two teams competing to see who's best) that we've landed on milking as much money out of the fans as they possibly can. It isn't just sports. It's everything. I've read several articles posted here on HN where someone makes a cool piece of hardware and they can't get funding until they come up with a subscription model to charge customers every 30 days. Look at app stores, Apple had meetings with devs a few years ago to get them on board with a subscription model for apps. Now it is the developer preferred model. Even (chain) restaurant food has been optimized for cost and not flavor.