Can anyone here name a debutante from last season? Who wasn't kin? Odds are greater that your grandmother could have.

I can't. But odds are, neither of my grandmothers could have, either. Both were dirt poor farmers' daughters who were too busy clawing their way up to the lower middle class to care about the age of anyone's money.

My share of ita's bank account, if I am a creator, is reduced by a sum equal to Netflix's overhead. Direct digital (PPV) has a lower overhead. I win.

Do you have any numbers to back that up? Because Time Warner may have negotiated a significantly more aggressive contract with the creator, with much less margin from them.

I don't know. I brushed shoulders with millionaires for years, and none of it rubbed off. No one married me, no one bought me more than dinner (admittedly lovely dinner), I didn't reap anything other than the occasional nice vacation, being able to drive lovely cars every now and again, and a fair amount of disdain or inconvenience because I wasn't able to even remotely pay my own way.

So I must disagree.

Were you trying to get "in" ita?

My share of ita's bank account, if I am a creator, is reduced by a sum equal to Netflix's overhead. Direct digital (PPV) has a lower overhead. I win.

My overhead doesn't affect the price I pay for something. It affects the price I can pay for something. There's no reason for me to pay more for something than a person is willing to charge just because I can afford it better.

The higher the barrier to access, the smaller the likely distribution, one would think as well....

I should just be happy that no one at work is bothering me, right? shrift, I am holding you up as my "there but for the grace of god" work example.

Ha! Well, it could be worse. I could be salaried, or working on a chain gang.

wrt to the money/class thing - pretty clear that there are not absolutes. trends - sure and higher percentages that x will happen - sure.

Were you trying to get "in" ita?

Did I want to have money like they had money? Sure. Enough to whore myself out? No. But that was about the only angle open to me to take advantage of the connections.

i.e. -- nothing fell into my lap, but it might have if I wasn't wearing panties at the time.

I need to rent the movie Metropolitan again. Or maybe I should just buy it.

Good lord. Are you all still really arguing over which is better, Netflix or PPV?

Gus, you know not to argue with ita, especially when she is right or thinks she is. She'll just hound you incessantly until you either agree or disappear.

Also, does it matter HOW people watch. So Gus likes to buy DVDs or pirate them from PPV. BFD. So ita and a whole bunch of other folks use netflix or rent from Blockbuster? Maybe they are supporting The Man, but does it matter?

sigh.