[TeMPOraL]

> I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning and how the deals work.

Think of it like working conditions getting increasingly poor and abusive year over year, while your salary stays fixed.

It matters not because the deals are increasingly shit and abusive, but also because them being much better is within most of our's living memories, and there's no actual reason for things to go this shit, except a supplier-driven market fucking customers over because they can, and race-to-the-bottom mechanics preventing any single vendor from reversing course.

[mewpmewp2]

That would not be a problem of subscriptions though.

If they can just keep increasing prices unfairly, then it means something is wrong with free market, not with subscriptions.

[TeMPOraL]

I didn't say increasing prices. I said decreasing quality. Price can stay fixed or even go down.

And yes, there's plenty of wrong with the free market, starting with that it's a hypothetical construct that doesn't exist, and even if it did, it's gameable and would have been gamed by the vendors the same way the real market is.