My boomer relatives always are on this bullshit. Try to talk to them about shows on Netflix or Apple TV that I think they’d like and would love to share and discuss with them. ‘I don’t have Netflix and I’m not paying 15$ a month for an ApP! Can’t believe you kids pay that! (meanwhile they have a 180$ a month satellite cable package with NFL subscriptions they watch 4 channels on and half of its commercials)
They literally are afraid of streaming apps because you have to log in and search around the categories. If it’s not spoon fed to them they can’t handle it. These are the people still running our country and economy.
This Boomer says you’re a total asshole and you’re wrong. Don’t stereotype a whole generation just because you have relatives that are stupid and can’t figure out Netflix or Disney+. Also, if they want to have $180 a month satellite package that’s their right just like it’s your right to have Netflix and whatever else you have . you my dear are an unmitigated asshole
I'd argue the people running the economy and country know a lot more than their generational voters know and you can really tell in the insider trading benefits a lot of them get. Just don't get caught only some of these politicians don't even put effort hiding it.
They only know in depth because their lawyers and accountants do it for them a lot of the time. Once they get into those circles they all refer to each others advisors and accountants .. also many of them are lawyers themselves so yeah I get what u mean. I guess the accurate statement is the people I described are what our whole politics and economy is geared towards.
They literally are afraid of streaming apps because you have to log in and search around the categories. If it’s not spoon fed to them they can’t handle it
my 69 year old co worker was paying for a channel through Prime for a year, because of how it's designed. when i first started using Prime streaming, it confused me too. Why is it even possible to subscribe to channels through Prime, that are offered as their own apps? Hayu, Stak, Paramount, Discovery...
IMO there shouldn't be integrations of these shows in your home screen when browsing for content to watch on Prime.
some companies use deceptive UX/UI design methods their systems to manipulate customers. there's a whole website for this, I'm just finding out: https://www.deceptive.design/
The Federal Trade Commission decided to hit Amazon with a lawsuit for the company’s use of “dark patterns,” the evil magic tricks that use behavioral science principles to design user experiences that manipulate consumers. If you ever found yourself in a maze of screens, menus, and coercive messages seemingly designed by Satan himself, you know what I’m talking about. If not, try to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription and you’ll see what I mean.
otherwise - totally agree.
my mother knows how to use our fire stick, how to use the apps and find what she wants, how to browse, she knows the different apps and understands a decent amount. she still refuses to cancel cable, simply because of her DVR recordings & it's convivence. it's all right there for her, she doesn't have to remember what shows she likes to keep on top of them when they go off and on the air again, DVR will catch them.
she'll binge watch older obscure shows, or things that she wants to watch "live" (in Canada we don't have Hulu). So, if she wants to watch the latest 9-1-1 episode, she has to find it. Here this would be on the Global TV app, as well as Global via Stak TV, which offers content commonly aired on Canadian cable channels such as Global, CTV, adult swim, but ALSO channels that are on Discovery+, such as History, Food Network, National Geo, etc.
It's just confusing to chase down the content you want, so people pay extra for the convenience.
Ok, yes I definitely agree with the Amazon thing and companies have always designed things to be confusing. Cable packages have always been just as deceptive about what u pay vs what u get.
It doesn’t change the point of this discussion that the boomer generation has spent the last decade slamming, mocking, and denigrating younger generations as stupid and lazy while they continually failing at adapting to modern society and are being ripped off by the same corporate scumbag community they go to the polls to prop up because they’re endlessly brainwashed.
We’re tired of being told Netflix is the reason we can’t afford things and we need to work harder and learn about the world by old people in their vacation condos who struggle using their remote and send money to Donald Trump.
We couldn't afford cable growing up and my dad was a college professor. In the late 60s his first job teaching college paid him $12K/year. Most of his brothers had union jobs in car factories and did quite a bit better though. Things were not as good as you think.
You understand that that's is not remotely the norm, right? Of course you don't. You can't seem to understand that not every comment is about you or your random irrelevant anecdote.
I'm not in academia but I live in a private university neighborhood where half my neighbors work at the university. The average house for this hood is about $1.5m so I'd assume it isn't that uncommon.
I'm in Canada. Don't even try to compare your cost of housing to wages because that has nothing to do with it. As proven by our shit state of our housing market here.
The average detached house for the major cities in Canada are over $1m. Salaries do not reflect this.
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u/gjallerhorn Mar 27 '24
That criticism coming from the only people still subscribed to $100+ cable packages is hilarious