It's licensing and/or product decision, not union labor. I guarantee you for most (if not literally all) titles you see, they actually have more subtitles, the

It's licensing and/or product decision, not union labor. I guarantee you for most (if not literally all) titles you see, they actually have more subtitles, they just don't / won't show them to _you_. Netflix has gotten pretty good at VPN detection, but you used to be able to see this _very_ clearly by VPNing to a different country in the EU, and the available audio and subtitle languages changed dramatically.