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As an American we may not want to be throwing the proverbial stone in that glass house
To be fair, I think their point in this case is many countries are in proverbial glass houses, some stronger than others.
Exactly.
Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
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You see I disagree with your fundamental premise, capitalism is a means to amplify creation of money and wealth inequality which is a bad thing, but people sometimes use it for good to help each other.
The definition of capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market. I wish I could edit my first comment to include the definition. I hate inequality and people hurting others through abusive practice…
That’s what I would call the spiritual or religious definition. It’s followed by the philosophical followers of capitalism (economics majors and similar). The practical definition of capitalism is studied by the operational practitioners (business administration, executives) of capitalism and only superficially resembles the former.
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#353I will bet a lot that Netflix is headed this way too. Once Netflix stops growing, it will need to find additional growth, and advertisement will be the way to additional profit.
The moment they start showing ads is the moment I drop netflix
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I was going to sign up for premium, I don't think I'll bother if it does work.
Well, serving high-definition video isn't free. If you watch a lot of YouTube, have an adblocker, and don't pay for Premium, that would make you a freeloader.
> Well, serving high-definition video isn't free. If you watch a lot of YouTube, have an adblocker, and don't pay for Premium, that would make you a freeloader.
The serving part is likely almost free since YouTube doesn't pay much for bandwidth. [0]
[0] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/19/yout...
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Even bigger issue (measured in future loss of life years and ethics[1]): cars, there's so much driving. For environmental reasons we should heavily discourage that. [1] smoking mostly is self inflicted harm, GW kills others
Cough White Collar.
In US TV series the people in cars tend to be white collar / upper middle class people. This is depicting supposedly relatable people who have choice and who never make a number out of it. So it's propagating a deletorious attitude.
Around my parts the white collar people tend to drive more than working class employees, because they get big houses away from the city where they work, and go to their cabins or whatnot every weekend, and are more likely to buy fuel-wasteful cars like SUVs. While non-white collar people more often go without a car at all or at least use it sparingly. Generally it's not like you couldn't choose a low carbon lifestyle if you worked in arts, blue collar industry, public sector jobs etc.
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#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a comparison, an observation. Those societies which tried to create prosperity by redistribution, found there is in fact too little to redistribute. And indeed, therefore, engaged in mass murder to deal with that scarcity. The same holds today. The GDP of the planet, distributed to all its population is a one-off 20k USD. Not enough wealth for almost anything. Wealth is about producing over time, and increasing g…
> Not enough wealth for almost anything. That is absolute bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993157 "2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees."
Did you read my comment?
The net GDP of the world, divided by the number of people in it is a one-off 20k -- that amount solves almost no global problems.
As for 2m chickens dying, that's a one-off meal for c. 5 million people.
So one day of hunger for only 5m people was lost. Again: almost nothing.
World problems are solved through growth, not by saving a few lost dinners.
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#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
The definition of capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market. I wish I could edit my first comment to include the definition. I hate inequality and people hurting others through abusive practice…
That’s what I would call the spiritual or religious definition. It’s followed by the philosophical followers of capitalism (economics majors and similar). The practical definition of capitalism is studied by the operational practitioners (business administration, executives) of capitalism and only superficially resembles the former.
I'm sorry; I am not well versed at making things up and passing it off as statements of fact.
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> It seems like the number of ads has dramatically increased in more recent times Don't neglect to account that it may be that as you grow older, you are more likely to encounter these types of ads because the drug companies target older consumers as they are more likely to need the product.
I only meant TV ads. As for trying to guess about me, I watch almost no TV in recent times, though I did watch it back in the 80's and 90's. I am basing this opinion on only small periodic encounters with recent TV, random samples. I do not see internet advertising because I use a text-only browser except when doing commercial transactions. In any event, I use local DNS, no third-party "upstream" DNS provider. I neve…
I was actually thinking specifically about TV ads. For example, drug companies advertise heavily during the evening news. Cereal companies advertise heavily during cartoons. It's always been this way.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
People had watch parties the moment episodes dropped for GoT. Bars would even air episodes in later years. Most of the world watched it together, both legally and illegally. It was definitely the same thing.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/media/game-of-thrones-season-... > Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones" notched a series record of 17.8 million viewers, according to HBO. "The Long Night" broke the record set by the season premiere just two weeks ago when 17.4 million viewers tuned in. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/2... > 106 million people watched ‘M.A.S.H.’ finale 35 years ago. No scrip…
I know tens of people that have watched game of thrones, maybe one or two legally. I think the real number might be higher then 17.8 million.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cough White Collar.
In US TV series the people in cars tend to be white collar / upper middle class people. This is depicting supposedly relatable people who have choice and who never make a number out of it. So it's propagating a deletorious attitude. Around my parts the white collar people tend to drive more than working class employees, because they get big houses away from the city where they work, and go to their cabins or whatnot…
Erm I was referring to the White Collar TV series which featured endless awkward product placements for a car.