Vote with your wallet
I'd subscribed to YouTube TV since it was first available. But the math just isn't mathing anymore.
After more than 15 years of working from home, I'm back in an office. With other people.
The people in the office are incredible. The building itself is pretty rad, too — a mix of doctor’s offices and traditional administrative offices tucked inside a historic Pensacola school building, with a long hallway that seems made for quick portraits.
I’m hardly the only person in a new phase of their career — plenty of my old colleagues are, too. It’s been interesting to watch. And I’ve also been recently reminded of a phrase often used by the beloved neckbeard Jerry Hildenbrand.
Vote with your wallet.
That is to say if you don’t like what a company is doing, or how it’s doing it, then don’t buy its products. In the context of our previous employment, that mostly meant phones and tablets and computers and the like.
That’s also the crux of the “resist and unsubscribe” movement that’s been making the rounds, though it’s overtly more political in nature.
And that’s all well and good. But here’s something I’ve been saying for a while, starting back when I was writing about streaming services for a living:
You have to do the math.
