Subscription Services are the laziest and most exploitative low-value corporate business model ever. Most cable TV channels are lazily running re-runs anyway (

Subscription Services are the laziest and most exploitative low-value corporate business model ever. Most cable TV channels are lazily running re-runs anyway (e.g. Comedy Central running reruns of South Park and "The Office" Non-Stop), which have already earned massive amounts of profits. Channels also aren't producing anywhere near as many quality shows and movies as the 1990s had, despite having much lower overhead with advancement of home editing and CGI. There are tons of individuals producing better content for TikTok than most TV & Streaming channels, but the industry is not giving them a shot because of cost cutting and lazy profit control as well. Subscription Models are making a bad name of software as a whole, where features are slowly taken away at the whim of a company's decisions to undermine value and up-sell different tiers of service in secret, and where ads and bugs are carefully added and tweaked into software to undermine the very value a service is based on to encourage upgrades. The prices of each of these service tiers, and the their features are also constantly complicated to create class-ism that becomes a wallet-draining total barrier to success and functionality for people that can't afford to keep up with ballooning costs of subscriptions as prices get raised unreasonably to please company investors... Just take a look at Adobe Photoshop, which shuts out new artists (with high pricing) who haven't even made a dime off of their work before they can even begin to properly use the app to make a name for themselves. I've even seen monthly subscriptions creeping into the silliest things like coffee shops and fairly essential car functional features.... Big business is waging a war on customers that has a horrible end result, and we need to be more vocal in stopping this trend of monthly subscriptions. It's a hostile move to distract us all from the real fact that customer service is being slowly killed, and companies are trying to transition us into a place where they profit no matter what the reliability of their products and services are... Worse yet, when a customer cannot cancel a subscription, this subscription model completely does not work properly, and many will end up paying for services they forget or don't even use. When a subscriber dies, they can go on for ages still being billed on automatic payments, with no one to protest the charges and payments, which should be considered a crime... The subscription model is based on corporate opportunism, and we shouldn't allow it to be normalized, otherwise every aspect of our lives will become a utility bill that locks us in to low value and limited services that unexpectedly zap our ability to budget.