Comment by 201984
13 hours ago
Depends on your financial situation, but $10 is nothing these days. That's the price of a bougie coffee, half the price of going out to eat, half the price of a movie ticket, or less than 2 gallons of gas in some states. For most people here, it's probably 20min of labor after taxes or less, for something you use constantly. You pay several times more, possibly 10x more, for the internet you use Kagi on. Really not a bad deal from that perspective.
So you live in one of the most expensive countries in the planet I guess, which forced you to get used to those absurdly high prices?
In my corner of the first-world, I'm paying:
* €6/mo mobile carrier with unlimited calls and what used to be 8 GB of data, but got raised (permanently without extra cost, across all customers) to 15 GB on last June. Paying a bit more could get you an "unlimited" plan.
* €10/mo for 500 Mbps fiber optic home internet, could be 750 for €15 but really I don't see the need for more speed. (How do you pay "10x more [than $10]" for Internet? That's crazy)
* Cinema is "expensive" at €12, while a premium IMAX costs around €16 (I guess, haven't gone in a while)
* Curiously enough, eating out does cost €20 per person for a "nothing special" restaurant meal; around €30 per person starts getting very nice.
This is such a wonderful website
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/prices_by_country.jsp
This is the broadband page.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/prices_by_country.jsp?...
I think I’m on the upper end of what’s normal in U.S. but also not super abnormal either —
1. Four lines on Google Fi is about $220 per month for “Unlimited”.
2. Comcast is $95 per month for 1Gbps.
3. A regular cinema ticket is $22.83 to the nearest movie theater and that isnt a "premium" thing like IMAX.
which corner is that, where you live?
People not from North America and Western Europe exist.
Yeah but you make up a small percentage of sales for US tech companies comparatively.
It's nothing until you have to buy a $10/m subscription for every basic thing you do, then it adds up.
All of your examples are things many people are no longer doing because they can't afford them.
People are no longer buying internet to use google, nor buying gas for cars? The others I understand, I'm cutting back on them too.
Even in the US, which is already very HCoL, I think you seriously underestimate the number of households who've either never had who have cut household Internet. Lots of households where everyone's Internet access is on smartphones via MNVO mobile carriers, typically on $10-$20/mo/line plans with 5-25GB/mo/line.
Yes, people are driving less when gas prices are high.