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Re: Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it

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Post by jen20 »

arrosenberg wrote: post #88
logicalmonster wrote: post #73

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> The holders would pay less in taxes when the valuation drops, why would they get a credit? Perhaps you're not familiar with some of the proposals to tax unrealized gains or what this means. This means there have been serious proposals from so-called serious people to tax individuals when a stock they're holding goes up, even if they don't sell that. So somebody is making a point that nobody has made a serious propo…

No one is proposing those taxes on middle class people. For example, Elizabeth Warren’s proposals would only affect those with more than $50M in assets. Second, the proposal isn’t to tax on price changes, its taxing the value of the asset at a given point in time. If the value goes down, the tax collected goes down. This is also how property taxes work - it’s a percentage of the assessed value. If the assessed value…

It’s just a matter of time before this hits everyone once the principle is established.

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Post by oriolid »

chii wrote: post #169
ramraj07 wrote: post #83

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While it is a valid point, Id argue that Netflix could have survived this - they had billions of dollars to create original content, and then they did create it, but some how screwed it all up. There’s at best 1 or 2 good show and no good movie Netflix has made in years. And anything half decent they cancel mercilessly without giving it a chance. This is not just in the US. The comparison of original content quality…

> they had billions of dollars to create original content they had the wrong idea that original content is their strong point. It's not. It's disney's strong point. Netflix should've used their dominant position to lobby for new rules to the game - prevent exclusivity of content! They should've lobbied gov't to mandate that studio productions of content be permanently untied to a streaming service, and be available t…

> Netflix is at it's core, a tech company that solves technical issues with streaming.

Netflix used to be a tech company that solves the problem of content discovery, too. Then they chose to not generate recommendations based on data but instead push their in-house content.

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Post by theodric »

andrelaszlo wrote: post #238
WillPostForFood wrote: post #226

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They were probably fooled by metrics. People were watching the crap, so it looked like crap was good enough (until it wasn’t).

Very true. They find something that's kind of amusing, then milk it until it bleeds (gross analogy, sorry...). "Nailed It", sure, I can watch it from time to time but it doesn't mean I will watch 150 other baking shows. Same thing with "Jessica Jones". I literally found articles about "The top 30 superhero shows on Netflix this year", trying to remember the name of this one. After a while you realize that the funny p…

People complain that Netflix kills shows too soon.

People complain that Netflix drags shows on past their prime.

People complain.

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Post by onedognight »

bombcar wrote: post #268
xyzzy123 wrote: post #239

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Couldn't you take loans against the value? I'm sort of assuming the wealth tax is a fraction of a percent, and that the burden would mostly be borne by high net worth individuals who could easily financialise their way out of small inconveniences.

Any tax on value is an eventual confiscation of the entire value given enough time, unless you have enough appreciation to outpace it (which likely is inflation). There’s no way to borrow against a property to pay a 2% tax for mor than fifty years, for example. You need an outside source of funds, or appreciation.

> There’s no way to borrow against a property to pay a 2% tax for mor than fifty years

Right. That’s the idea. Create value or sell the property to someone who will.

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Post by bruhhh »

this is sorta of elitist article that people cant relate to. One of the major reasons why people are leaving netflix is because their sub is expensive af compared to all the other streaming services. I could sub to 4 different major streaming services for cheaper than the mid-tier sub on netflix. I'm glad to see them lose sub and look forward to see their complete fall for being greedy tools

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Post by prawn »

55555 wrote: post #200

I’m bored of Netflix. They have simply gone the assembly line direction instead of the direction of art, at least for some big niches. For example, every True Crime docuseries on Netflix is the same crap. Once you’ve seen three, you’ve seen them all. They get each cop involved in a big empty room, sit them on a solitary chair, put a dramatic light above them, and shoot them in 4k. Then they direct it at a pace to bor…

Isn't this true of the broader media marketplace? If you look at Prime, once you're past some recognisable movies, you'll see a hilarious list of 3-4/10 IMDB movies you've never heard of before. They're out there and they get no buzz and are largely ignored.

On Netflix, they're throwing stuff at the wall to see what will stick. And they're doing it in various genre because it's a diverse world out there (an Indian soapie is different to a British one, for example). While your bar might be high, someone starved of space x zombie crossovers will like something just enough not to cancel their subscription for a couple more months.

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

JMS2021 wrote: post #287
aqme28 wrote: post #259

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Do you have any examples?

In the children sitcom 'No good Nick' a female chef ignores feedback from her employee by accusing him of 'mansplaining'. The daughter accuses the white dad of 'cultural approriation' when he suggests taco Tuesday for the restaurant. And that was only the first minutes of one episode.

And that’s more extreme on Netflix than other channels? White Lotus on HBO touched every woke topic in existence and was enjoyable. It’s the content that matters not how it leans.

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Post by GenerocUsername »

afavour wrote: post #118
dhzhzjsbevs wrote: post #101

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The idea that Netflix is failing because of identity politics is just ridiculous and doesn’t hold up to even the slightest examination. It’s just another reactionary talking point that feels right enough for people to not examine it.

Any examination of Netflix that does NOT include Go Woke Go Broke is a joke. Everyone I know is at least aware of how cookie cutter and predictable the woke agenda is on every Netflix original, and it is a reoccurring topic when people finally decide to cancel

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Post by JMS2021 »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #307
JMS2021 wrote: post #287

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In the children sitcom 'No good Nick' a female chef ignores feedback from her employee by accusing him of 'mansplaining'. The daughter accuses the white dad of 'cultural approriation' when he suggests taco Tuesday for the restaurant. And that was only the first minutes of one episode.

And that’s more extreme on Netflix than other channels? White Lotus on HBO touched every woke topic in existence and was enjoyable. It’s the content that matters not how it leans.

Enjoyable is subjective. White Lotus was terrible in my opinion.

Not sure why you are arguing? People have stated that's the reason they have quit, and yet you are somehow suggesting that we are wrong? Or because another service does it?

Accept that some people are tired and bored of having unrealistic plots and characters that are only there to "tick boxes".

But sure, recasting the queen of England as a black woman is obviously fine.

Let's do a series on MLK and get a balding white guy to play him, or perhaps an Asian person?

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