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[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago (15 children)

"Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against"

Have you tried

Not Enshittifying

?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Tbf, a lot of the problem is from content producers making their own platforms

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I'm not sure I buy it. Just because content producers wall+jerk themselves off doesn't mean you have to enshittify your own product, not when you are winning. Besides, Netflix already became a content producer themself partly as an answer to that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

doesn’t mean you have to enshittify your own product, not when you are winning

Since Netflix is a publicly traded company now, they pretty much have to.

Gotta pursue that infinite stock growth....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Fair point, capitalism ruins everything by definition.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is it. The stock market is pretty much the reason everything goes to shit. It's run in rampantly criminal fashion in the first place, just a meat grinder for money, and if our legal system weren't run in such a fast and loose, revolving-door echo chamber fashion, someone would have clamped down on it years ago. Why this isn't more obvious to people is stunning to me.

It's like religion. It corrupts you, makes you angry, sanctimonious and blind, and hence stupid. Avoid it like the plague it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe it's not even the stock market, but the laws surrounding it. To the best of my knowledge, a company's primary legal obligation is to maximize shareholder value. Ethics and maintenance seem to be secondary as a result. There needs to be legal ways or more incentives for companies to be satisfied with their progress and seek stability/maintenance, and keep their stock price stable.

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