Netflix: The End of Productivity as Al Knows It

God dammit, it's like crack to me.  Pure economic reasoning led me inexorably to the decision to pledge 8 American Dollars a month and my soul to Netflix.  This is pure unadultered addiction.  In one of my more classic posts, Half.com Will Be My Financial Ruin, I touched on my affinity for media, and the principles of consumerism to which I'm susceptible.  Here, I've discovered it will cost significantly less money to dedicate substantially more time to movies and television.  What was especially alluring about Netflix apart from the cost, was the variety of ways one can stream media.  For no additional cost, movies and television shows can stream directly from my Xbox, or my PC.

I find myself in one of my more classic struggles of thought, time versus money.  Some will argue, time is money. I feel that one can always make more money, best of luck making more time.

Initially crunching the data I formulated the following fundamental law.  You're welcome.

z< xy

x= The number of DVDs Al buys/month
y= Cash value of 1 DVD (In American Dollars)
z= The Cash value of one month of Netflix in American Dollars

That was the most voluntary mathematics I have ever done.  Other than this one occasion that I'm pulling from the recesses of my mind. 1st grade, I recall having optional homework (What a strange notion!) of a sheet of addition equations to bring home and complete.  For whatever reason, I found it most stimulating or at least satisfying to operate those equations with great ease.  I remember specifically there being daily planners in which the daily tasks that were mandatory were prefixed by a green circle, and the ones that were optional were blue triangles.  Something strange is now occurring to me, perhaps it's just retrospect or hindsight, but I feel, (and feel I'm justified in feeling) that circles, and green for that matter, are more indifferent to action, and portray a lesser sense of urgency than do blue triangles.