Compared to the middle ages, yes. But we‘re not better off than in the 60s I believe.
Haui
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I think everyone is living this. You‘re not fucked because you live this but you have the brains to be aware of it.
I didnt see that. Thats rough.
Thats very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Please don’t kill me but does anyone else find this story missing some steps?
Like if vpns are actually legal (which they should be imo) and he has not done anything wrong why dont we get the legal reason for this confiscation?
I can understand that china is brutal but they will definitely veil their anti information countermeasures a bit better than „you used vpn! That is illegal! Pay all your income! Although vpns are legal here!“
It does read weird.
Okay. Let me rephrase that: why are these the only brands that make printers except niche ones?
Too much competition in a 10 player market? This is an oligopol and likely the reason why there is an entry problem.
I agree with you on all accounts. You should not buy stuff just because it is new.
But I think you didn’t get the point of the text that I posted:
Companies abandon their old products which leads to security risks due lack of updates. Same goes btw for kitchen appliances. If you bought a fridge 10 yrs ago it might still work, not super effiecient and maybe missing the newest gimicks but that is fine with me. What bothers me is that you won’t get a technician to repair your old fridge for less than you pay for a new one. The parts are too sparse and expensive for that.
And it is the same with nearly every product out there. You used to be able to buy shoes that make it 10 yrs. Today that is rare not because companies want that but because most people have no need for it.
And that is where policy comes in. Consumerism needs to go. Only way to do that is either information (which I doubt will work) or outlawing large parts of it and forcing sustainability on everyone.
What eludes me is that literally nobody except hp, xerox, canon, brother, dell, epson, kyocera, lenovo, lexmark seems to be making decent printers.
I know that the printer business is rough for sales people for some reason (the guy who I learned sales from 18 yrs ago was a printer salesman before becoming a coach). But what I don’t get is that there does not seem to be good money to make for small companies as they are not gaining on the big ones.
Is everything locked by patents or what is the deal here?
Someone on reddit put this perfectly in my opinion. Saving you the trip:
You know how it goes: Some video game developer or publisher does something uncool - release a singleplayer game with predatory microtransactions, make a new game that is just a copy-pasted version of the last installment, lay off hundreds of employees for thinly disguised reasons, use some draconian DRM, get called out by an insider report for abhorrent labor conditions, etc. - and the forums and subreddits are full of comments like:
"They get away with that because you keep on buying their games!" "Hit them where it hurts: Vote with your wallet!" "They will continue to do so as long as the games sell!" “Just don't give them your money!” And I think this sentiment is utterly, totally and hopelessly naïve. Publishers don't care about your 60 bucks. They don't care about the 20 people you might convince to not make a purchase. They don't care about the loss of 1000 consumers that won't play a game because of some unpopular decision. All this is but a tiny drop compared to the sheer uninformed and uninterested masses that make up the bulk of consumers and their revenue.
The "vote with your wallet"-mantra is indicative of a culture that puts the burden of action on the individual instead of the collective. It banishes the obligation to act to the private sphere instead of the public or the political one. It's indicative of a mindset that every problem should be solved the capitalist way, i.e. by using or not using money.
I would even go one step further and say that it is actually harmful to achieving change. The political theorist Chantal Mouffe points out the importance of affects in politics: passion and emotions are strong motivator for calling for change and participating in collective movements. A person that cannels his emotions into the decision not to buy something will feel like they have done their part. This hinders their will to participate in other maybe more effective ways of problem-solving (lobbying for political regulation, exercising public pressure, initiating coordinated campaigns (petitions, shitstorms, etc.), take part in a union, etc.). […]
Critical Hit!
I second rimworld in general but I‘d say its a management sym rather than strategy. Real strategy games (and the best ones I know of) are starcraft 1 and c&c red alert. They’re as old as time but don’t have bugs afaik since games were made different back then.