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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 2841888, member: 173"]
I grasp the economics concepts, although I’ll note you left out the critical customer willing to pay $0 for a given channel.  Without that included, you’ve effectively shown an irrelevant “best case” scenario with no grounding in real-world realities.

Cord cutting is an indicator many customers are willing to pay less than the cheapest bundle offered, and are finding other alternatives.  I’ll admit I’m unsure what media cord cutters consume - I’d assumed many stream using other people’s account info which should be a very solvable problem - but the fact companies haven’t solved it along with several anecdotal events make me question if a substantial enough percentage of consumers haven’t just abandoned conventional channels.  Continuing to drive up the cost of the cheapest bundle is not going to slow down that trend of cord cutting, although it may alter the media consumption approach of the cord-cutter group.

I’d agree bundling and the approaches networks are taking is the best option they have available right now - that does not make it a good option.  Like many of the systems/processes we’ve built up over the last eighty years in the US, the current system is floundering but no replacement is available - the only question now is what triggers the cascade failure.  On the positive side, I’m 100% certain it will not be cable bundling.
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