Perspective is everything.
Today Netflix sent an email out to all their existing American and Canadian subscribers to announce that their accounts will remain fixed at their existing $7.99 a month (for the next two years). NEW accounts however will now be $8.99 a month. That’s a $1.00 a month, or a mind boggling $12.00 for a year. They indicate this increase is to help them increase their libraries of Movies and TV shows. And I’m all for that, especially as a Canadian subscriber. Hell, I’d be happy with them actually increasing my account by $1.00 right now, if only to help increase the options. It’s not like we still don’t get more than our money’s worth every month.
On the other side of the coin, Hydro Quebec just announced their record breaking profits for 2013 at just under 3 billion dollars ($2.94 billion to be exact) And yet they had the nerve to have requested from the previous PQ Government to approve a 4.3% rate increase, which the government gladly green lit.
What I’m seeing today are a LOT more people losing their shit over the $1.00 increase to Netflix, EVEN THOUGH, their accounts will not be raised for another 2 years; compared to people upset with Hydro Quebec continuing to systematically rip off their monopoly held clientele. Granted these are for the most part the same people that complain with each and every minute change FREE services like Twitter and Facebook make.
Is it just me? am I the only that is much more concerned about the Hydro rate increase?! From what I've seen online today, I guess so.
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