I’m sad to say that it feels like you are right. I didn’t mean that Netflix is all good, I just meant that we also have an ecology question here that’s involved, not just the money. If it generates tons of money but also generates tons of waste— do we really need it?

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.