Paying Netflix $0.53/h, etc.
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Paying Netflix $0.53/h, etc.
The average American spent $640 (or $53/month) across all digital subscription services in 2019, according to The New York Times. That’s growing at a 3% CAGR over the last few years. The biggest growth area was streaming TV services, which is growing at 14% CAGR.
Brian X. Chen • How Much Are We Paying for Our Subscription Services? A Lot (Published 2020)
“What would I have been willing to pay for that? What would I pay more for?” Other examples: • Would you pay more for Netflix? Netflix faces competition from Amazon, HBO, and other challengers, along with many international first-movers.
Tom Gardner • The Motley Fool Investment Guide: Third Edition: How the Fools Beat Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too
That comes out to more than $17 per gym visit—when in reality they’d have been better off buying pay-as-you-go passes for $10 each.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
While half a trillion hours are devoted to TV annually (just in the U.S.), it generates for its content owners, on average, only 20 cents per hour. If you were being paid to watch TV at this rate, you would be earning a third-world hourly wage. Television watching is coolie labor. Newspapers occupy a smaller slice of our attention, but generate mor
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
10k @ $10 / yr — Gig economy: e-books, drop shipping, transactional gigs