Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by TimTheTinker on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:04PM (#19912067)

> I mean, is it bad? This is everyone I know back home. They go to work, come home, eat, and watch TV. It's a life.

If you believe your origin and your destiny are agent-less and meaningless, then it makes the most sense to call everything in the middle meaningless also. Thus - eat, drink, watch TV, have fun till it's over. I can see that making sense.

But if life and its pursuits have any shred of meaning, then I think it's OK to say they could be doing better things with their time.

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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by komali2 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:36PM (#19912458)

You and I agree, for our own lives. I derive meaning from my agency.

For some reason, though, there are a shitload of people out there that don't have this ambition. I understand difficulty empathizing with it, because to people like you and me it does look like a "waste of time." But for some reason it really is just ideal for a lot of people to be able to switch their brain off and sit comfortably in front of a TV and be entertained.

For these people, you could argue "you should be doing something better with your time," but all you'd get back is "why? This is comfortable."

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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by airstrike on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:19PM (#19912251)

+1. Very nicely said. Thank you for this

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