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I feel the world is splitting in two:

One half watching YouTube at 1.5 speed and skipping the first Wadsworth constant minutes of it, reading Wikipedia and looking for more ways to get directly at the essence of things.

The other half who wants to pay a fixed monthly price for somebody (Netflix today) to keep them "entertained" for hours while filling up their non-working hours.

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It's always been like that, since when television was mostly free and you watched the same four channels every day unless you preferred the library because you could browse encyclopediae and find one or two specialized books about a topic you were interested in. The 'Net just made us more aware of the latter category.

The big difference is that Netflix partly replace cinemas for some people but they are adding less and less movies and more and more series.

Are you not entertained!

Down voting a movie reference in a thread about Netflix... rough day.

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