And we still don't have flying cars!

Let's be real: Uber/Lyft is actually better than calling a cab. Even for the same price, it's more convenient. When you actually share the cab, it's more efficient too, you get a price cut while it optimizes the route automatically to pick up and drop off people.

Uber always cost as much as a taxi, it's a private hire taxi company exactly like any other private hire taxi company, their rates are controlled just the same. In the UK, anyway.

Obviously I'm not talking about black cabs, those bastards are ripoff merchants that only tourists use. I'm talking about normal taxis.

So tired of this trope.

Streaming is like HBO in the old days — you buy a channel for a few months, watch what you want, cancel it. Rotating channels costs $20 a month. Cable costs $80-100.

Canceling a streaming channel is easy. Canceling cable requires calling the cable company and arguing with them. Then you have to return the set top boxes. Then you get a bill for the set top boxes anyway, and you have to argue some more and show them your receipt.

Also free streaming channels are a thing. Plenty to watch for free (unlike cable).

Ye ol bait and switch. I need to go back to cabs

Streaming is still much cheaper than cable.

Assuming netflix vs cable in my xountry... Yeah I know which one has better value.

No matter what new technology we come up with .... it will always be bottle necked, manipulated, and limited by human greed.

Streaming is not as expensive as cable. And Uber is a better experience.

Oh look, technology under capitalism cares about profit, not purpose

Shocked pikachu

Streaming has become remarkably easy, all in one place and free. No need to even sail any seas these days.

I wonder if all the companies considered that as they raised prices and divided the user base.....