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I didn’t read the Netflix thread but here are a few topics tangentially related to Netflix which have the potential to spark interesting debates on HN: * Netfl
by runarberg 5y ago
I didn’t read the Netflix thread but here are a few topics tangentially related to Netflix which have the potential to spark interesting debates on HN:
* Netflix’s worker and labor policy: Being a FAANG it is inevitably interesting to tech workers how one of the big profile companies treads their workers. In a healthy class aware industry this should be a hot topic and indeed an issue in the culture war (as described by Marx himself a century and a half ago). Regardless, as a tech worker my self it is always interesting to see what other tech workers think about our current state of our working conditions.
* Netflix’s role in our entertainment: We are humans after all and like different things, we also like to talk about what we like and do not like. Netflix has been particularly brutal in cancelling loved media before the authors of said media had plans to write more (e.g. GLOW, Sense8, etc.) There are some media critics among us that surely has an interesting take on this, and other cultural critics which can go on about what this means in the broader context of our cultures.
* Netflix’s influence in the shift of how media is consumed: Being an early streaming platform it has inevitably had a huge influence in individualization and the platformization of media, for better or worse. Most HN users consume media and have felt this and have an opinion on this. There are a lot of amateur—and some professional—philosophers among us which like to share their take on the philosophy of consumerism. These takes can indeed be interesting.