TLDR:

Current ad free plans for Disney+ and Hulu are now raising $3 more on October 12. Both becoming $13.99 and $17.99.

  • Cliffjumper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh look, another one.

    YouTube: premium is increasing

    Spotify: we’re increasing your sub

    Bank: we’re increasing your mortgage

    Supermarket: we’re increasing your food spend

    Car insurance: we’re increasing your premium

    Household bills: we’re increasing water, gas and electricity

    Broadband: we’re increasing your fees

    Cellphone: your contract renewal is higher than last year

    Salary: fuck you, peasant

    Bank Of England: Just stop spending

    Disney: Hi …

    • ffolkes@fanexus.com
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      To be fair, Spotify might suck for artists, but for users it’s a good value in my opinion, and the price was $9.99 for like 10 years. I don’t begrudge them a small increase. In fact, I wish all the price increases we’ve seen lately would be so modest.

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        1 year ago

        Oh no, I completely agree and I continue with it because I really like the service. It just so happens that it’s on top of a whole raft of other increases, some of which are absolutely not justified.

      • whats_a_refoogee@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Why are you bootlicking? Stop encouraging corporations to milk money from consumers because “it’s not as bad as the others”.

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          1 year ago

          Especially when they’ve a) acknowledged that none of their money is actually going to the artists and b) they’re in a piracy subreddit. People gotta stop shilling for music streaming services here, it’s indefensible on every level.

          • SoManyChoices@lemmy.sdf.org
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            Some of us old timers remember the bad old days when a CD with two songs you actually liked cost $17.99 (about $35-40 in today’s dollars). As bad as Spotify and others are it sure beats what we had before.

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              Yes, let’s just pretend digital downloads haven’t existed for longer than streaming services and solve this problem completely.

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                  I go to live shows and buy merch literally every week. I generally support artists directly whenever possible. I don’t need to give these giant corpos money while pretending more than pennies go to the artists.

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        Imo paying a monthly fee and not getting something in return you can still use if you fall on bad times in such uncertain times as today makes zero sense. Rent more than doubled in the past 3 years and my wage actually went down, there is zero oppertunity to build a better life and now every silly business wants me to increase my monthly expenses by another 5/20 bucks per service per month, compared to an era where we just bought shit for cheap from the discount bin when we didn’t make a lot of money.

        I’ll “ARRRR!” the whole way until they behave and life becomes affordable again.

        I stopped working out because i can’t afford the food needed to properly benefit from a workout. Whey used to be a cheap way to get protëine and it went up 350% in the past 2 years. Eggs, chicken, peanuts, vegetables all doubled in price. I’m left eating a roll of cheap cookies just to get some food in me half the time.

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      To be fair my fiber ISP recently got actual competition and lowered my price from 95/mo to 65/mo. So SOMETIMES the system works. When its not rigged.

    • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Bank: we’re increasing your mortgage

      Supermarket: we’re increasing your food spend

      Car insurance: we’re increasing your premium

      Household bills: we’re increasing water, gas and electricity

      Broadband: we’re increasing your fees

      Cellphone: your contract renewal is higher than last year

      Salary: fuck you, peasant

      Bank Of England: Just stop spending

      When in the last 120 years was this NOT a case? Sure, few last years have been fucked more than usual, but we are still living pretty comfortable lives. Inflation is natural.

      • ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world
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        What happens when spendings are bigger than income, genius?

        Of course it’s been happening for a hundred years that’s why it got so bad. At some point water boills, sur prize

        Jokes aside, we’ll see our first generation of homeless labourers.

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          It’s already happened in Hong Kong for decades with the coffin apartments. It’s just now more prominently occurring in the west.

          All businesses must move to a circular economy. This infinite growth nonsense is what’s causing this and it’s impossible to have infinite growth.

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        A YoY inflation rate of ~10% is most assuredly not natural in most of the developed world. I fully understand why it happened, but that serves no justification for the negative impact on the lives of the majority of the population.

        • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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          And the increase in the price of goods that I’ve seen around me has been more like 30%, not 10. It’s blatant price gouging, but the government refuses to act to stop it.