BBC a series of repeats?

I know the TV is now classed as an old-fashioned way of absorbing entertainment. We’re now spending potentially more time on YouTube and Netflix compared to watching traditional TV programming.

However here in the UK we pay a TV licence fee directly to the BBC who is, allegedly, adverts free. The cost of this is around £13 per month, give or take a few pennies. This is double of what we’re paying for Netflix, not insubstantial I thought.

The BBC is a national institution in the UK, many regard them as the best TV in the world, which of course includes their news channel and many radio channels, both national and local. They have done a decent job of introducing BBC iPlayer in order to allow us to catch up on programmes we may have missed and also access some box sets of past series. We have been enjoying Cuckoo right from the start, as we had not seen it previously.

However Netflix is also transmitting many series that originally have appeared on BBC TV, so wondering where the value is now?

My complaint however is that the BBC is starting (maybe I had not noticed before) to repeat programmes that had either been aired the previous day, albeit on a different channel and even a topical news comedy series, which had aired last year.

If we wanted to watch programmes again, surely we can just watch it on the BBC iPlayer app?

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Furthermore the BBC is also planning their own streaming service in partnership with ITV (UK commercial channel) called ‘Britbox’. I suspect any box sets that currently are available on the BBC iPlayer will probably transition there and then we’re expected to pay for that as well?

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Anyway just disappointed with the BBC’s (The Beeb) programming to air repeats.

Michael de Groot

Rewards

We’ve been conditioned from birth that when you behave, when you achieve and when those closest to you approve you will receive a reward. It all starts out with a sugar reward.

Rewards motivate us to do better next time and to strive for the next reward. During those early young years the rewards were handed to us, all we had to do was perform according to the wishes of our parents, our teachers and maybe even society.

As we grow into adulthood and we earn money we totally see that as the reward, after all we’ve been conditioned for a couple of decades and it’s now a habit. Really it’s no different to rewarding your dog.

“Hand holding scoops of sweet ice cream in a cone” by Alex Jones on Unsplash

And when we receive our reward as money, well then that means we can now start buying the rewards that we want. The money is exchanged for rewards like alcohol, food, holidays, houses, cars, jewellery, clothing, presents and stuff we definitely don’t need but still we feel we deserve them.

Knowing that we will receive the funds each month, each year, year in year out means that we feel safe in the knowledge that if we spend now, probably on credit, we will be able to pay off that credit in time. Trouble is we rarely do and we become slaves to the credit system and stay in debt for the rest of our lives.

The banks invented credit as a way of making more money and in doing so created a system of over-consuming or rather over-rewarding, because after all that’s what it is.

Happy spending!

Michael de Groot