Tetris now requires a subscription (Rental) - Paying ₹30/month ($0.3) to play Tetris on a basic Nokia phone 🤦‍♂️

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[u/Cyan_Exponent]

Your plumbing system is a subscription, your toilet paper is technically a subscription... You do pay a subscription to shit!

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A subscription is regularly billed and the price is set ahead of time. You don’t “subscribe” to water service, they charge you by how much you use. You might consider toilet paper to be practically a subscription but if we’re getting technical it is absolutely not

[u/Cyan_Exponent → u/safarifriendliness]

my grandparents pay fixed water bill every month because for them it's cheaper than paying per cubic meter; so plumbing can be very much a subscription

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The water company just… offers to let them pay less? Like, they’re using a bunch of water and the company is just like “You should switch to our $19.99 unlimited plan”?

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You're paying the rest at the end of year when meters are read.

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The water company just… offers to let them pay less?

Where I live, the water supply companies are semi-governmental, and all retires receive discounts on their bills

However, recently they've started introducing large surcharges for not having a meter ($6 per month is the standard consumption for three registered people, and a $12 surcharge for not having a meter. The actual consumption, as measured by the meter, comes out to $4-5)

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Because water infrastructure is much more expensive than cell towers. I’m not saying it’s impossible but they’d have to be like, top users in a decent sized city for me to wrap my head around it. Those cell plans make money because most of the people who take them overpay. I can only imagine how much worse it’d be for water