Let us have an experience: Let’s examine your bank and credit card statements and compensate for all the subscriptions for which you pay every month or each year.
I recently did this and I hated what I saw. I knew I was paying for all this … things, but once I saw it all at the same time, I realized how much it costs and I started to think about all the other things I could do with this money, like paying bills or buying gas.
I have seen subscriptions for Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, HBO, Nintendo, Sony, a handful of websites, etc. It made me start to look at what I Really Used compared to what I pay without realizing it.
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You could be in the same boat as me. It happens quite easy; You decide that you can afford to pay $ 10 per month for something without stretching your budget, but all these things add up. I lower the value of a cash payment each month for things that I should not.
It will not stop either because companies know that they can suck us to pay them hundreds of times instead of once. They claim that it makes things practical and easy, but it is often a lie. The same goes for nonsense to have unlimited content to appreciate.
For the amount of money I pay Tidal or Sony every month to get a catalog filled with things that don’t interest me, I could have bought what I wanted and always save money. I also have it, in a way: you never really have music or software music, thanks to the license and other bulls.
I know I look like an angry old man tell all the young people to leave my grass. Although this can be true (Mrs. Hildenbrand says that it is totally true), it doesn’t change anything. The companies want us to give them money for things, then try to find ways to charge us even more money to use these things. We see new subscription services appear every month; Even Garmin now wants dirty action.
This shows you how little you are for them; You are nothing but a dairy cow to be treated until you are dry, then at the glue factory. I never thought that Google, for example, loved me as a person, but the way the company tries to nickel and ten years each month is disgusting. It should be illegal in one way or another.
I stop. I made a list of who reaches my pockets every month and cut all hands by doing it. Bonus is paid until July; Then it’s done. Media streamers like Netflix and Tidal have disappeared. I don’t even remember why I started paying for Apple TV, but Old Man Cook can find someone else to fly.
The list goes on again and again, and unless I have a use, I nest it. It is bad enough to pay for public services and insurance, not to mention paying access to the first album of the hottest New Jazz Quartet that I will never listen to.
This does not mean that everything is bad; I get useful services of certain subscriptions. For example, I could configure a dedicated firewall and storage server, connect it to the Internet and create my own universal storage system. I tried and hated that, so I just pay Google for that.
Likewise, I prefer to skip advertisements on YouTube because I even hate advertisements that I hate spending money. However, if the creators continue to put sponsor segments in each video, my vision habits will change, and I will not do need To skip the ads because I will completely stop opening the application.
The only thing that will change is what I have access to. No company cares about a person fed up with their shit and cancel everything. No business cares if I will not buy their product because they want me to pay an additional month to use it entirely. But they would do it so enough of us did it.
I’m not going to start a manifesto of “being able to people” or anything here. I will suggest you look at what you spend every month to rent things you could buy, decide which you really use and tell everyone to hit the road.
If we do it enough, things might even change.
