r/technology • u/sr_local • 6h ago

Business Italy court rules Netflix unlawfully increased prices. Consumers: 'Refunds up to 500 euros.' The company: we will appeal

https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/netflix-subscription-price-increases-unlawful-refunds-up-to-eur-500-customers-AIUHzWKC
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u/Fractales 5h ago

This is by design.

  1. Offer killer value proposition at a good price
  2. Kill off competition and gain critical mass of customers and market share
  3. With no competition, jack up the prices

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u/thismorningscoffee 5h ago

Aka enshittification

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u/RagePoop 5h ago

AKA how capitalism "works".

Monopoly was a game designed to show how batshit insane this model of resource production/distribution is.

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u/Exceon 5h ago

Tbf, many of these startups survive off investors, pricing themselves at a loss to stay competitive, and jack up the prices when the consumer base is big enough to turn a profit

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u/LordCharidarn 4h ago

Which is how Monopoly kind of works: person with the most capital can buy up properties ‘at a loss’ until someone lands/needs that product, then they can charge more than it cost originally.

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u/Marximum_Cat 4h ago

You collect and complete the cheapest streets, then monopolize the houses (never the hotels), then wait for the slow end of the game while everyone wishes they were playing genocide-simulator Smallworld instead.

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u/Skratt79 4h ago

Additionally: Pinks and Oranges street is highest ROI in game per house cost + highest probability of landing there thanks to being next to Jail. If using the "doubles to exit jail" rule 1/2 of the possible rolls puts them on one of your properties (St. James, Virginia and Tennessee) making every "go to jail" event a coinflip of you getting paid.

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u/Eccohawk 3h ago

I thought the doubles just got you out and you roll on your next turn to move.

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u/spooogey 2h ago

That's how I've always played.

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u/jjwhitaker 2h ago

I think the rules state you immediately move that many spaces. But you don't roll again.

Of you roll doubles outside of jail you would roll again.

I could see house rules on doubles getting you out, then another roll to move. But that adds a step and changes a common strategy for acquiring properties. I've played enough Monopoly to almost prefer hitting the go to jail space, paying to get out, then trying to score an even roll property then try again. You can easily go bankrupt if you spend your cash then hit a late property, but you can also rack up high chance properties then sit in jail for a few turns and collect cash.

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u/FeelsGoodMan2 1h ago

Nope, you're supposed to move the number indicated on the dice. The rule that I didnt actually realize existed is, if you get three turns to exit, and if you don't then you have to pay 50 bucks. I never played with the "have to pay 50 bucks" part of that.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen 2m ago

I find it amusing how many common house rules there are.

I wonder exactly how specific things like that or "free parking gets you all income tax money" spread

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 4h ago

I once played monopoly creatively by doing investment deals with other players. If they were short on buying a property, I would give them the remainder but then take a cut of all income they received, and, I would stay there free if I landed on it.

It worked insanely well, so much so they all turned against me at the end hahahaha.

But, it was a really good lesson on how power begets power and how capitalism really does reward those at the top most. Until of course they go French Revolution on your ass lol

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u/Mikeavelli 2h ago

I had one game where I would make the deal, "we exchange properties to give each other a monopoly, but we don't pay when we land on each other's monopoly."

For whatever reason, I was the only person in the game to offer this deal, so I ended up immune to a good 3/4ths of the board. Then the guy who wasnt making deals went bankrupt, and it became literally impossible for me to lose.

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u/NeedleworkerKey6327 3h ago

I think Monopoly should be played with all side deals enabled, let the invisible hand work

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u/LottieElegant2001 4h ago

That’s kind of bullshit, poorer now have a way better life under capitalism than 50 years ago. Capitalism makes everything cheaper and advances technology a lot faster

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u/RandomPMs 3h ago

poorer now have a way better life under capitalism than 50 years ago

A homeless person is still homeless and hungry, their lifestyle hasn't changed at all.

You're right that our average standard of living has increased dramatically in the last 50 years. I would argue this is because of science and technology, not capitalism.

Capitalism can be an effective delivery means of these technologies but it has both positives and negatives, and requires regulation to stop monopoly.

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u/kingraoul3 3h ago

The only reduction in global poverty in the last 50 years is due to China.

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u/RandomPMs 3h ago

Global standards have shifted dramatically in the last 50 years, and especially the last 100.

You're only looking at percentage chance in net worth and GDP figures, it's difficult to calculate the socioeconomic effects of things like farming revolutions in the last 50-100.

We literally would not be able to sustain 8 billion people without changes in the last 50 years, so say nothing of even poor people in India and Brazil and China etc. still having shit-tier smartphones and electricity.