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Netflix Gave An Unproven Director $55 Million For A Sci-Fi Series, And He Blew It On Rolls-Royces, Crypto, And Dodgy Stock Bets (jalopnik.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this why they had to raise their prices again?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Netflix had in 2023 roughly 247 Million paying user (they say). Blowing 50 Mil. is like 0.20$ for every user. It was mostly a mix of inflation, greed and shareholder demand for profit increase (also greed) that made you pay now more, for barely the same service/product.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*worse service

The crackdown on sharing accounts didn't personally affect me, but it was still one of the reasons I dropped it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I got annoyed that the price kept going up and the quality of the shows went down, or there was just too much crap to filter out in order to watch something good. A lot of shows I like would randomly get cancelled, like Kim's Convenience, Altered Carbon and others I can't think of now.