• Gabu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Do both. Most people won’t do the right thing unless they’re pressured into it. I don’t give a shit if you want a tablet, that’s your problem - I do give a shit if you buy a new tablet every couple years when the old one works just fine. Swap “tablet” for pretty much any non-essential thing.

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      7 months ago

      Non essential as in…if you are poor you deserve the basic nutrients to not die and that’s it?

      America is the richest most powerful country this globe has ever seen and you want to shame poor people for wanting the occasional shiny thing?

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        7 months ago

        Also, why the fuck would anyone work for a regime that is destroying the world for all future and some current generations, AND has thrown them away in a way we make a crime to do with our actual literal garbage? Fuck you if you want me to, y’know?

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        7 months ago

        Are you braindead or just illiterate? I straight up meantioned not caring about the occasional trinket so rubes like you wouldn’t need to think too hard.

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        7 months ago

        It doesn’t stop working just because it’s no longer updated. I know someone using a 10 year old android phone.

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          7 months ago

          no but it’ll still run like shit, and be vulnerable to security issues. My android phone is 7 years old and can barely do the two things i need it to do.

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            7 months ago

            Or, sometimes people who are poor have to constantly buy new phones because they frequently can’t keep up with the payments.

            When you lose service for nonpayment, you may have few options other that to buy a new phone (as part of a service plan) once you can afford it.

            Still the point is that it’s an essential item and it’s kind of a jerk move to be judgemental about that when billionaires got richer faster than any other time in history through the pandemic.

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            7 months ago

            'muricans and their anglocentric view, man… I swer, you lot don’t even think there’s a world beyond your borders.

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              7 months ago

              I see, so which country do you live in where impoverished people can afford to buy a new phone every few years?

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                7 months ago

                Hello from your South superpower neighbor, Brazil. We have free healthcare, free higher education, acceptable welfare, loads of dumb people and cheap chinese products. On the plus side, at least our electricity is overwhemingly green.

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                  Oh, so you mean poor people replace their crappy phones that only last a few years when they break.

                  And you think they shouldn’t do that.

                  Got it.