40 Percent of America Will Cut the Cord By 2030, New Report Predicts (vice.com)

bumblebaetuna shares a report from Motherboard: By 2030, as many as 40 percent of Americans will have cut the cord, according to predictions in a new report by market analyst TDG Research. The percent of U.S. households still shelling out for cable has dropped every year since 2012. If the trend continues on the current path, TDG predicts the percent of U.S. households subscribing to pay TV will drop to 60 percent in the next 13 years. Cost is a major driver of this shift: the cost of bundling a few favorite streaming services together still pales in comparison to the average cable bill. TDG found that two thirds of cord cutters and "cord nevers" (people who have never paid for cable) said service expense was the key reason they do not use legacy pay TV services. There's also a generational shift: 61 percent of adults aged 18-29 say online streaming services are the primary way they watch TV.

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Re:Cut the cord? What cord?

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For the rest of the more modern, democratic and free world (not the USA, rapidly degenerating into a corrupt autocracy), people are not actually cutting the cable, so much as replacing it with a better one, a more open one, one they share with the rest of the world and where all the worlds content will compete. You have seen nothing yet, the really big moment starts with effective and invisible auto translate services and then you will really see the Artificial Intelligence that is the Earth's computer network, really take off in surprising ways.

Some will violently resist, exposure to a world of ideas, they should simply be shunned and avoided, the path the US seems to be taking (the one being shunned and avoided by the rest, perhaps sharing that distinction with Saudi Arabia, Israel and North Korea), at least the government and the corrupt individuals who control it to serve their own individual interests.

PS Picking on Israel not for what they are doing to Palestinians but for what they are doing to Americans and their democracy, doing more to corrupt US democracy than any other country and in a very destructive and costly manner (they are even training US police forces to treat US citizens just like the Israelis treat Palestinians, you guys have to wake up to yourselves and kick the Israelis out of your government).