[lazide]

In India, 90% of the inkjet printers use refillable ink tanks. The ink is way cheaper than in the US, there are no ink cartridges, print quality is the same, and the printers are roughly the same cost too (in USD).

Americans are dumb for accepting locked inkjet cartridges.

[faangguyindia]

>In India, 90% of the inkjet printers use refillable ink tanks. The ink is way cheaper than in the US, there are no ink cartridges, print quality is the same, and the printers are roughly the same cost too (in USD).

No they don't.

Indian market sells same printer as they sell in US.

Difference is, indians refill those cartridges, reset chips, or use fake cartridges.

There are only few printers in market which can be filled for real.

Indian cartridges are cheap only because labor in india is cheap. If US had same labor prices.

But quality is just not same. I lived in both US and India.

[lazide]

‘Tank’ printers are everywhere. And literally comparing side by side with US versions? Same same.

What you’re talking about are the printers way, way cheaper than you can get in the US.

[jchw]

Being exploited doesn't come from being dumb. If anything, the way I see it, it's no coincidence if people just happen to be kept ignorant in a way that's beneficial to the systems that are also exploiting them.

We do have some printers here that are designed for this use case for what it's worth. Dunno if they are any good. Personally, I have had a Brother color laser for years.

[lazide]

What would you call someone ‘prone to be easily exploitable’, and ‘unable to see/resist exploitation’?

I’m sure there are other words that we can use too.

[loa_in_]

"Easily exploitable and unable to resist exploitation" is perfectly fine. We're not short on writing space here.

[lazide]

I don’t know, sounds dumb.

[jchw]

"Dumb" is an insult to someone's intelligence, as if the problem is them. Ignorant is a bit closer.

But that's not actually my point to be honest, my point is that the problem is not the people who are getting screwed over. It's the people screwing them over.

[lazide]

The people screwing them over rely on a target rich environment.

One could not exist without the other.

[jchw]

Uh huh. And what do you think causes a "target-rich environment" anyhow? Just people getting dumber for no reason?

[lazide]

Everyone being pushed down Maslow’s hierarchy of needs due to macroeconomic and political forces, generally. Possibly by a population wide event like a pandemic too, of course. And/or religious influence.