>people are going to watch TV no matter what

Well, not really. Obviously people already watch TV, but netflix is much more addictive, by design, and that's not a good thing.

People are going to gamble no matter what, yet modern slots are many times more addictive, else the companies wouldn't research and develop them.

>Better Netflix than competitors, no?

Why?

> Why?

Because the parent had worked for Netflix.

> netflix is much more addictive, by design

Is it? I remember people being glued to TVs for ungodly amounts of time before Netflix.

I’d argue that, for at least some people, streaming/TiVo/etc. can lead to more deliberate TV watching rather than plopping yourself down and begging out. I guess the counterpoint is there’s all this TV just sitting there for the watching but I’m honestly not sure which predominates. Many People historically watched a lot of TV, of whatever type happened to be on.

One issue I have is autoplay -- when a program stops you get a pause and time to think if you want to do something else. Which is why they don't let it stop ...

Continuous play is difficult with kids; you have to poll the TV viewing, rather than getting an interrupt. It's literally the only bit of Netflix I'm personally not happy with.

There was a time when people didn't watch TV. They used to listen to radio. And before radio they used to read books. It's entirely possible that a new form of media will come along, hopefully less focused on passive consumption of content.