RE: The Steps Away From Broadcast Television

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I haven't had cable for a very long time and honestly life has been amazing without it! So much free time to do things I enjoy instead. Huge savings in money each month. There's so many taxes and surcharges on cable tv its dumb. I think it was $120 a month for some pretty basic plan.

Instead I just get Amazon video (which I'll most likely dump prime here soon), Netflix and that's it for like $12 a month a huge cost savings and I've thinking about shutting off netflix soon as well and maybe getting it a few months down the road if there's a season of something I want to want.

I mean seriously imagine paying $120 while wasting huge amounts of time watching commercials. Nearly 40% of a half hour show was commercials lol. They pretty much dug their own grave and had all the chances in the world to step up but they where too old school to ever notice. In fact they have been known now to charge existing customers even more money to make up for the lost customers lol



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Same here. I got Netflix and tried Hulu, but paying and still having commercials killed that instantly for me.

I still hop from one to another periodically to catch up on something but I don't carry any of the streaming services full time either, except HBO max because it's added to my mobile plan.

I hardly even try to find anything there either... so much garbage, not worth wasting my time to browse for confirmation it's all garbage most times.

But it does call to mind something @taskmaster4450 either said in a post or inspired me to realize on my own, and that's how valuable we are. The money these services spend and the trash they spew out to get our attention is ridiculous.

I don't like doing anything now that I don't get paid for. Blogging, gaming, entertainment... too many people itching to get in front of me to give it up for Amazon Prime's free movie of the week starring Ringo Ballhound and Katie Katstench.

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I don't like doing anything now that I don't get paid for.

The attention economy is forming.

There will be more people who view things the same way you do.

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Well, shit, man... why would anyone do anything for free anymore? The only reason I ever did was out of necessity. Now I can get paid for existing so why would I want to leak value for someone else to cash in while I do without? I call bullshit and I don't want to play anymore!

Seriously, though, I'm still struggling with the betrayals of my youth, wherein I was taught/allowed to throw money into the consumerist void without any education relating to financial planning, management, and responsibility.

And this wasn't just a failure to blame entirely on my parents. They were seduced/trapped by the same non-sense. My "General Business" class in high school taught me how to balance my checkbook, while my math teacher drilled how we were gonna need this on the construction sites when we go to work.

No one told me why it was wasteful to blow money on over-priced posters, t-shirts, and shitty music that was made specifically to milk me of every nickel.

Sure, the elders disapproved of my taste, but it was always because God didn't like Motley Crue, not because it was a racket designed to bleed me.

I can't think of one thing our society doesn't do ass backwards and I've come to understand that it's not just us, the whole world is crazy as fuck, but we seem to be the only species with the ability to look at things from an overview and make adjustments and we just haven't learned how to do that responsibly or efficiently yet. I kinda think we'll get there, though... even if it's only long enough to make it to the next save point before regressing three steps back again... at least we'll have a new mark to target, fall short of over and over, and eventually surpass to discover a whole new set of problems to wrestle with for another century or two... goddamn this is a crazy ride...

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There will be more people who view things the same way you do.

It can't come soon enough if you ask me.

I'm looking forward to the day everyone I see has a glow of understanding of the power we wield... although I imagine few people will grasp it for what it is. Most people will just think baby Jesus finally decided to smile again and fa la la off into a new and improved oblivion.

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There will be more people who view things the same way you do.

It can't come soon enough if you ask me.

I'm looking forward to the day everyone I see has a glow of understanding of the power we wield... although I imagine few people will grasp it for what it is. Most people will just think baby Jesus finally decided to smile again and fa la la off into a new and improved oblivion.

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That is true. Where I am, the one thing that cant be avoided is dealing with them for internet.

It is why I have high hopes for Starlink. My hope is they look to demolish the cable companies by, as they get global coverage, adjusting their plans to make then serious less than what the present companies charge.

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