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True, but you could rent 3 times for less than the price of the average box set.

• mrguyorama 2y ago
  Yet in the past, renting the movie you wanted to watch cost a scant couple dollars. Netflix played a shell game with people's idea of value. A $18 Netflix subscription might seem not bad, it's less than an hour's work for most people! But that $2k a year? How many people spent $2k a year buying and renting media? My family spent like $100 a year doing that. The entire point of the subscription model is to take advantage of the way your brain processes value. I've given Spotify like $8k over the course of my subscription. I definitely do not regularly listen to $8k worth of music. If I cut off the long tail of the weird stuff I listen to, I probably listen to less than $500 of music in my lifetime, and very little of that went to the actual artists I like.
  • jogjayr 2y ago
    > But that $2k a year? $18 * 12 = $216
    • mrguyorama 2y ago
      In my defense, math is like, really hard. I'm only a whole magnitude off!