Such a flame bait hot take. While you are right in a vacuum, it is completely off topic: if this was a growing market, like the person you are replying to was saying, Netflix would give a rat's arse about ecology and happily ship its plastic.
I know it’s some naïve idealism, but I would love to see the world where we, as human race, choose to do nothing rather than trash our planet even more. I may sound like a crazy ecology fanatic (I’m not yet), yet I’m becoming more and more worried over all this. While the other commenter legitimately pointed out that servers aren’t free (ecology wise) either, I think they can be optimised over time. Shipping physical disks, I don’t see as rational these days. Even when it gets you money, discard half of your customers and the other half would switch to subscription anyway, you just push them to do that earlier.
I don't understand this comment - it might make sense as a (bad) pitch for digitising Netflix in the 2000s, but the millions of FTE days to do that have already been pitched, paid for and worked. What is this adding?
Replace - I'm not sure how much I can add on top of what we've already said, that Netflix has been replacing its mail order business with digital for the last 15 years or so.