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>people are going to watch TV no matter what

Well, not really. Obviously people already watch TV, but netflix is much more addictive, by design, and that's not a good thing.

People are going to gamble no matter what, yet modern slots are many times more addictive, else the companies wouldn't research and develop them.

>Better Netflix than competitors, no?

Why?



> Why?

Because the parent had worked for Netflix.

> netflix is much more addictive, by design

Is it? I remember people being glued to TVs for ungodly amounts of time before Netflix.


I’d argue that, for at least some people, streaming/TiVo/etc. can lead to more deliberate TV watching rather than plopping yourself down and begging out. I guess the counterpoint is there’s all this TV just sitting there for the watching but I’m honestly not sure which predominates. Many People historically watched a lot of TV, of whatever type happened to be on.




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