[laverix]

But how does average Joe pay for the account, if the prices for groceries, electricity, heating and transportation explode? If things go really south, average joe will be happy if he can afford food and heat his rented flat at least a little bit in winter.

[yywwbbn]

We already know that governments are likely to just start throwing loads money in every direction if they believe that things are going to go ‘really south’.

[Melatonic]

He probably will keep paying for a single service he really likes and share it with a bunch of people/family and split the costs. But yeah of course if it is between beans and rice and Netflix the person is gonna choose food. But that would be extreme poverty

[giantg2]

I think this assumes they can't get food through other programs (unemployment, snap, food bank, etc). They could have their food and Netflix too.

[whiplash451]

Average Joe will use the cheaper, ad-based plan that Netflix is working on.

[jallen_dot_dev]

He'll finance it with credit card debt.