I did some math and thinking how expensive is to actually be on the internet if we don't want ads and our data to be used.

I read around 5, 7 papers regularly every month.

- new york times 0.5c/week

- economist 29eur/month

- wired ~$2.5 / month (i think)

- fortune 29.9

- the new stack (free? I guess)

- medium - 5 eur/month

Total: $820usd/year

Storage

- I use google as it's the most simple, reliable and complete 19.99month

Total: $239/year

Entertainment

- youtube video - $17.99/month

- netflix - $12.99/month

- prime - $4.99/month

And thang God for streamio with real-debrid plugin

Total: $431/year

Food

- glovo prime - $6.99/month - because they are assholes and add taxes to transportation, service (whatever the fuck that mean). Same goes to those dickheads from uber, airbnb, takeaway etc.

Total: $83.88/year

This does not include other profesional subscriptions I have:

InteliJ, todoist, etc let say an extra $300/year

So we are looking at around $1800, $1900 /year

I admit i don't pay for all the papers at the time. Mostl'y using free tier or pay for the one suits me well that month. But the rest. I kind need them because most of them they are forcing me to do so or i need them

This is not easy sum for most. And you don't get you money's worth. There are months when I don't open netflix or prime for example and not canceling subscription.

We need to bring back the pay per use.

#payperuse #payperservice #letsmakeitsimple