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Streaming was a mistake.

Which, again, is fair enough.

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So screw it, I’m going back to cable TV.

Your cable company sucks?

Too bad, you get what you get.

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Unfortunately, the answer is right there in front of me.

Netflix was one such beneficiary.

All those great shows and movies that Netflix produced?

Fueled by free money from the US government.

Like cable companies have been doing for decades.

They do it because it’s the only way it works in practice.

So in the end, streaming services will have to become just like cable companies.

Higher fees, more ads, and lower production-quality content.

It will only get worse now that streaming services have to actually confirm each show makes its money back.

Without those production values, what’s the point?

At least with cable, I know what I’m getting, as awful as it is.