The analogy has been used before – but if you get poor service and a lousy product – how long do you keep paying out good money for it?
Even doing that for several weeks smacks of incipient insanity – and yet fans are expected to do this year on year, decade on decade.
Then the shriek, “If you don’t pay to watch this load of poo – you are not a real fan!” (Otherwise known as ‘the blackmail factor.”)