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Uh, this presupposes I buy every streaming service. The entire point of streaming services as a cable cutter is to not be forced to buy every channel. I can still just pay 16 dollars a month (at maximum) for a single service.
You'd have a better time looking at the inflation in costs of internet to the consumer versus inflation in cost to the companies. Cable companies are pretty blatantly making up the loss of cable subscriptions by charging more and more for the same shitty internet while taking billions in subsidies they don't put towards infrastructure.
But streaming still comes out on top because in many places if I did traditional cable I'd still be paying internet+streaming prices, except I also have to pay for internet on top of that because I don't live in the 1980's.
Can we stop posting blatant corporate propaganda unironically please?