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This is so strange to me. I guess people enjoy being ripped off and getting less and less value for their money.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 63 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I guess. It's very shocking to me, but people have spoken...

[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 60 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You can't trust people. People listen to Cold Play and voted for the Nazi Party.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 38 points 9 months ago

People. What a bunch of bastards.

[–] silverhand@reddthat.com 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Nothing, I think the point is that people will listen to a band that may have left of center sensibilities (I don't know about Coldplay in particular) then vote the opposite. A great example is the video of the old white couple, wearing thin Blue line flags, dancing to Killing In The Name Of by Rage Against The Machine.

[–] SmokumJoe@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Ben and Jerry's "Coldplay's Pretentious Vanilla"

Bland, self important and boring

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

If you gave humanity the ultimatum that they can continue paying what they're currently paying, or subscribe to nothing for a year but be rewarded with the same price to access all movies and tv series ever created, via a single service, for the rest of their lives... I'm willing to bet more than 2/3 of the human population would cave and re-subscribe within a couple of months.

[–] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

Because they made the cost of adding a household less than the cost of two accounts, then banked on the fact that people wouldn't want to "screw over" whoever they were sharing a password with. It was a good business strategy, if shitty consumer practice.