Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices

sperlingreich writes "Last week, after movie streaming service Netflix raised its prices by 60%, the company's customers took to blogs and social networks in revolt, threatening to cancel their subscriptions. However, between the cost of mailing DVDs and paying increased licensing fees for content, a Netflix rate hike was inevitable. Is it still a great movie bargain? What alternative services are there?"

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Here's a serious answer. Statistically, blacks suffer from an inherent intellectual disadvantage so we as a civilized nation have to look after them the same way you look after drunks and old people. Blacks are naturally violent and stupid. Our options in managing them include some kind of apartheid style segregation (including jail) but that would only serve to make us international pariahs so that's obviously not happening. Our other option is to deal with them as best we can taking into account their own limitations and our limited resources. The answer society has come to is to blow as much smoke up their asses as possible to placate their self-esteem, make sure they can subsist on at least some minimal level enough to afford liquor and marijuana, and lastly, make sure they can afford a house in the projects, a big screen TV, and a fridge full of hamhocks to keep them from roaming the streets robbing us and breaking into our houses.

tl;dr: we give them just enough crumbs to keep them in line.

You know it is ugly truth but there's lots of truth in that. We really do treat them like they can't handle their own affairs or take responsibility for their own lives. Liberals portray this as the compassionate nice thing to do but is it really? How would you like to be insulted and coddled like that, as he said basically treated like drunks and old people who can't hack it on their own?

I keep hearing about institutional racism, how racism is not the thing of the past a lot of whites like to think it is, etc. What if racism has just changed form? What if it is no longer about calling them the n-word and denying them jobs and respect, or like with extremists like the KKK committing crimes against them just because they are black? What if racism has just changed into treating them like a bunch of retarded children who cannot be trusted to live their own lives freely?

If so then all of you affirmative-action supporters, "diversity and inclusion" types, Liberals, and everyone else falling over themselves to prove how not-racist you are, well, that would make you the REAL racists. After all you are the largest group still in existence who treats people differently based on the color of their skin. By definition that is racism. Even if the different treatment is an insulting brand of favoritism. I know if I was black I'd be seriously insulted by things like affirmative action, the message being I could not make it without special favors.