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by rfvrgvegbegn 2035 days ago
It's like saying

"I like my polluting car, if you don't, don't buy one"

"I like my t-shirt that has been manufactured with slave labour, if you don't, don't buy one"

Can we stop with this naive "Let me buy one, if you don't like it don't buy it" ?

This puts your immediate personal comfort over the common future of computing, technology, freedom, privacy, economy and more.

1 comments

Wow what a bunch of non sequitors.

Someone polluting the air impacts your life, someone choosing a different computer does not.

Is someone in a third world country building goods for first world consumers “slave labor” or improving their standard of living by “pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps”. Methinks an accurate discussion is far more nuanced than you really want to have.