Saturday, October 14, 2017
Paying the price of freedom? No, it's the other way.
The commenters on a ZH article about the failure of cable TV got into some meaningful discussion along with the usual crap. One said:
I've actually calculated what I saved since I cut the cable: $20,000+. No joke.
Okay, let's try it. Fortunately I marked the moment when I unplugged the cable.
From August 2010 to now is 86 months. Eliminating cable TV saved $80 a month at that time. Presumably Comcast bills have gone up since then, but using $80 gives a total saving of $6880.
Pretty damn impressive. Since I live on $12K a year, that's about seven months of living. One extra month of income in each cable-free year. More importantly, it's 86 months of FREEDOM from the hard-wired toxic injection of TV.
Repooflicans love to squawk about Paying The Price Of Freedom. In fact you have to pay for slavery in the modern world. Freedom is cheaper.
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