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Not to sound like a ancap idiot or whatever, but I'd imagine that has to do with the fact that streaming services don't actually compete with one another. Exclusivity deals mean they don't actually compete in terms of user experience, features, ease of use, higher video or audio quality than their competition, improved bitrate, whatever. Instead, they just compete based on who can snap up what IPs for the cheapest, which is just a game of whoever has the most money, whoever can outbid their competitors. Then, you're not going to netflix or hulu or disney+ because of the features of the platform, you're going to them because they have some IP that the other platforms just straight up don't, and if you want to watch both IPs you gotta pay for both. So, it's not really competition, in the conventional sense.