Dick
Senior HTF Member
- Joined
- May 22, 1999
- Messages
- 9,928
- Real Name
- Rick
I am so goddamned sick of this perversion of capitalism - there was a time when the co-existence of at least several competing interests was a good thing - it kept the prices reasonable and insured that bad companies would fall by the wayside while those providing honest value to the custumer would flourish. This mega-corporation mentality is eventually going to create monopolies in various services and products and we're all going to be scratching our heads and wondering what happened (careful - this is occurring right now in ownership of radio and media outlets, to say nothing of Wal Mart). Netflix has better customer service, and the fact is, I'll bet that 95% of all Netflix customers get more rentals per month than Blockbuster or Wal Mart can offer due to the number of warehouses and their longevity (read: experience) in the business. I hate seeing Netflix having to lower their rates to something below a prifit line in order to compete with companies who, as earlier pointed out, can fall back on other product or services and who obviously plan to simply wipe out the competition and monopolize the market. Think you'll be getting three DVD's out per month for fifteen bucks after that happens? We need to search our consciences and determine if saving a couple of bucks just so that BB can suck another small company into its grossly oversized one with wa-y-y too much influence is a good thing in the long run. But, then, our government has for many years been trying to steer us well away from thinking about the long run. We seem to be complying. (Boys and girls, can you spell, "L-e-m-m-i-n-g-s...?)