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You get what you pay for. Everyone wants everything to be free, therefore it is shit, and you shouldn't complain because if it's free you are not the customer.
by api 11y ago
You get what you pay for. Everyone wants everything to be free, therefore it is shit, and you shouldn't complain because if it's free you are not the customer. The advertisers are the customers.
Of course radio and TV are the same way. Mass media has always been a race to the bottom where producers race to out-do themselves on offering 'free' content of absolute minimum quality to occupy someone's time and get ad dollars. Listen to the absolute shit that fills free TV and radio airwaves.
- iamcurious 11y agoEveryone wants everything to be free Market dynamics are complex and the wants of the uncoordinated many are usually override by the wants of the coordinated few. For instance, Microsoft wanted core competencies of the competition to be free. So it developed Internet Explorer and bundled with every Windows system. The wants of the people weren't relevant. You get what you pay for, therefore it is shit. This implies a correlation between money and quality, which not always holds. Some things are free and aren't shit. For example: Linux Some things are made shit when they aren't free. For example: many scientific papers . Things that require effort usually require an incentive. Money, specially paying for use, isn't the silver bullet of incentives.