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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)

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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[–] [email protected] 562 points 1 year ago (27 children)

You say "broken promises" I say "the plan all along" and "bait and switch".

[–] [email protected] 261 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Yep. The business model has always been "Lure them in and stifle competition with a low initial cost. Then when we have the market we can jack up the price." Enshitification at its best.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 year ago (20 children)

This is just capitalism at work. Capitalism = enshitification, exploitation, and destruction.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Literally working as intended. Not sure why it takes people so long to figure this out.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A healthy dose of western/capitalist propaganda since birth and until death helps a lot. So many people under the illusion that this is the natural progression of civilization, or the best.

[–] Br0qm 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you've been exposed to nothing but capitalsm your whole life it's incredibly hard to be convinced that anything else could even work. Just like people born into religious cults, it's hard to break when it's all you've known.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Growing up in the '70s and '80s in the US, I know that the "greatest country on earth" propaganda worked on me. It took me until my 30s before I kind of looked around and said,"What the fuck is going on here?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cue Will MacAvoy's speech in The Newsroom.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

So much propaganda some people think that if a government offers public services they are about to be sent to a gulag.