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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by emerongi on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:25AM (#22636677)
If your gym won't be able to re-open after this thing is over, it only shows the quality of management of the gym as well as of the government. It should not be your burden to bear and build a buffer for them for their mistakes. Someone higher up pocketed all the profits while things were good and is now not ready to invest that money back into it to keep it afloat and that's THEIR problem. They have the money, let them put it back into the economy.

Cancel your membership and stop giving into the bullshit that people are feeding to you. If you want to help, help people, not corporations.

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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by DJHenk on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:40AM (#22638446)
> If your gym won't be able to re-open after this thing is over, it only shows the quality of management of the gym as well as of the government.

Yeah, right. So if I am to open a gym, or any other kind of business, I should have it in my business plan that I must have a big enough reserve to survive having my shop closed for months with only days notice. How many businesses do you think will pass that test? I think zero.

Maybe society is more than just the economic transactions that take place and maybe that gym should be opened despite failing this new test, because it is important that we have gyms that keep people fit.

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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by mikelward on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:40AM (#22637864)
In many areas, the gym business was very competitive, and the profits were very small, if any.

It may be that whoever has the deepest pockets survives and others go out of business.

I guess the question is how long they have to bleed money until the customers come back.

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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by teekert on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:29AM (#22637753)
The owner is just some dude, granted he has a nicer car than me :)
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