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Why do steaming services think they have a captive audience and I'm not going to ditch all of them with the crazy influx of annoying ads? (lemmy.world)

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I've been unmotivated in the past but i think it's time to sort out an alternative.

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[-] mayo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The economy is in a weird spot where data looks alright (employment and gdp) but the covid economy hit everyone including your friendly neighborhood corporation. Ads are a simple and reliable way to turn up profits in a soft economy and declining global situation and inflation. Since companies have effectively stolen wages for so many years they can't cope with modest wage spike on their bottom line or really any disruption anywhere in their business they use ads to print money. Maybe as time goes on business will benefit from slowing wage growth and increasing automation we will see ad growth scale back. Regulation would be nice but what are you going to do?

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2021/03/COVID-inequality-and-automation-acemoglu.htm

https://www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macroblog/2024/06/27/are-real-wages-catching-up

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024

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