http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
The ATT guys, […] understood that the income from $20-a-month customers wouldn’t pay for good web hosting. […] the industry solution was to offer hosting that wasn’t very good.
[…] “If you want something to be 10 times cheaper, take out 90% of the materials.” Making media is like that now except, for “materials”, substitute “labor.” […] Murdoch of News Corp said “Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use.” […] The most watched minute of video made in the last five years shows baby Charlie biting his brother’s finger. (Twice!) That minute has been watched by more people than the viewership of American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and the Superbowl combined […] the logic of the old media ecoystem, where video had to be complex simply to be video, is broken

http://kristinmaschka.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/busting-stereotypes-about-families-and-money/
In 1970 families spend ONE HALF their single income on fixed expenses.
In 2003, families spent THREE QUARTERS of their two incomes [on it]

http://www.netpme.fr/fiscalite-entreprise/443-fiscalite-entreprises-france-est-elle-competitive.html