Screwing people over is now the law of the land

[hunter]

21. Since when is television a necessity? It's not like healthy food, clean water...

... comfortable housing, medicine, etc..

My wife and I quit cable a long time ago, years before we first subscribed to a streaming service. Bye, Comcast.

We later quit broadcast television too. That was more than ten years ago. Our television plays DVDs and streams movies and television series without commercials. That's all it does.

I've gone so long without advertising supported television I now find television commercials intolerable.

These days we usually subscribe to two or three streaming services at a time and budget less than $35 a month total for those.

If our streaming services ever become too annoying, too expensive, or start showing commercials then we'll quit them too.

I've noticed our adult children and their cousins don't pay any attention at all to traditional television. Like us, they don't have cable or satellite television. All they care about is their internet connections. Our children do a lot of work from home and require fast internet connections which is one of the reasons they live in cities where optical fiber internet is available. We get by with an unlimited DSL connection, which we'd have for work anyways so I don't consider that part of our television budget.