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not to dispute your point, but netflix is a library
by hansel_der 5y ago
not to dispute your point, but netflix is a library
- capableweb 5y agoUh, no? A library lends out books/media to people at no cost. How is Netflix, a publicly traded for-profit company, anything like a non-profit, usually government-owned library?
- ARandomerDude 5y agoThe library costs you money too, in the form of taxes. At least Netflix only charges its actual users. I'm forced to pay for the two public libraries in my town even though I've never been in them.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoYour taxes also maintain roads you never drive on. And yet you still benefit because the trucks that supply your grocery store or the plumber coming to fix your sink might use those roads. That’s the point of taxes: we all pay in, and we all reap the rewards.
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- capableweb 5y agoAre you really having issues with paying extra taxes in order to help people afford reading more books and gaining knowledge for themselves? Capitalism has really fucked us up if this is a common sentiment.
- jen20 5y agoThe cost of civilization. It appears lost of many.
- CRConrad 5y agoFortunately, those whom civilisation just doesn't rub off onto are still farily easy to spot.
- hansel_der 5y agoyou pay a (usually) flat fee and get to borrow (no change of ownership) stuff.
- breakfastduck 5y agoWell other than the cost its essentially the same experience for the user
- capableweb 5y agoAgain, no. Try writing Netflix and ask if they can add something to their "library", they won't. Libraries adds stuff based on user requests all the time, and even have 3rd party loans so you can borrow books from another library via the one you have access to. All Netflix cares about is profits. All libraries care about is sharing. They are two very different entities except for the fact that they deal with media. They are more different than they are similar.
- syshum 5y agoYou are right, netflix is better. Netflix has to earns its money, netflix has a serve its customers, Netflix has to provide value to each individual subscriber. The government does not have do any of these things, they just seize money via threats of violence. There is no comparison.
- quesera 5y agoBeing a library has nothing to do with being non-profit or government-run. The first libraries were private. Sometimes they were opened to fee-paying members. Netflix is a library. Public libraries are the "new" thing. But not the only thing.
- another_story 5y agoSure, it meets the technical definition, but not the colloquial usage of the word. No one says let's check out the library and means Netflix. You may hear the “Netflix library” mentioned from time to time, but it has a different connotation as far as use.