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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)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 65 points 3 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 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?"

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