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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • There is no such thing as a free service.

    People need to eat, bills need to be paid, shelter needs to be provided and unless people can have these at no expense and create things for pure passion & share for others to enjoy then they need the means to pay for these things.

    The internet has whittled this down to a few basic models:

    • Pay the service directly for the content (subscriptions or 1 time purchases)
    • ‘Free’ content and they serve you ads which they are paid for by companies trying to sell something to you
    • ‘Free’ content and they sell every bit of data they can scrape from you to companies which are again, trying to sell something to you.

    If you could find a way to do anything without having to pay for our human needs then would it be a trillion dollar idea or would money be meaningless now when people wouldnt need it to live & enjoy their lives?






  • Exactly what im thinking.

    Is it just that we have in the last few years reached the threshold for large TVs to have come down in price and up in quality for them to be worth the purchase - but also the incentive to get a new tv to have a bigger/higher quality picture isnt worth the upgrade (or just your satisfied with the product you have).
    And then factoring in that practically worldwide inflation and cost of living is out of control and people sure can make do without a fancy TV when instead they can have food and pay their rent.

    Next article “is streaming dead? We keep putting up prices and consumers are dropping subscriptions!”