This is dressing as hell and yet expected. Money tops anything.Y'all like lists?
Someone on Reddit compiled a nice list!
Back to bartering.
I thought they were on our side!
...only if it's rigged for corporations.
Sonic The Hedgehog was conceived during a time when the idea of individual rebellion seemed inextricably linked to consumer culture. We can think of the 1980s as a point of large political and economic shifts. The structures that allowed social welfare programs, government support, and government intervention into corporate practice began to dissolve, as there seemed to be no political or philosophical justification for their expansion, especially under the economic crisis of the 1970s. What began to emerge in its place, as a new dominant political ideology, was a "market-driven" thought that argued not only for the deregulation of markets, the freedom of corporate practice, and the dissolving of collective social welfare programs, but did so as part of a larger political project: to reinstate a political and economic elite, whose power was blunted through unions and activist organizing of the mid-20th Century. Political theorists like to call this "Neoliberalism," and we can probably say that it was, above all, a mission to bring back the 1%, and the cultural norms that keep the 1% in power: greed and individualism over collective power; meritocracy, the idea that those in a place of power and success are there because of their individual strengths and not their privilege and inherited wealth; and capitalist realism, the construct that places capitalism as the most rational and "sensical" social-economic system, the only kind of that "makes sense".
boy you seem really insecure about these bubbles since you're always spamming this same post in apple threads
Im not seeing much of that in this thread. What a difference from the blizzard thread.
Im not seeing much of that in this thread. What a difference from the blizzard thread.
And this is when Windows Mobile returns!The solution is to break up Apple and Google so we actually get some competition in the smartphone market.
Not going to lie, in the past few years one been more and more tempted to get a few apple products. (The new iPhone is mighty tempting.) This makes it easy to say no again.
Damn, did this OP get removed too? A (perhaps updated from when you posted it) mirror anywhere?Y'all like lists?
Someone on Reddit compiled a nice list!
Yep. Sure, there's little I can do, but it's something I can do.Because the competition has nothing to do with China or because you not having an iPhone will help human rights in China?
Damn, did this OP get removed too? A (perhaps updated from when you posted it) mirror anywhere?
Yep. Sure, there's little I can do, but it's something I can do.
You probably won't.
The smartphone market is a duopoly. Few smartphone companies manufacture their phones without at least part of their supply chain coming from China.
Not to mention network effects and ecosystem lock-in that Apple is so fond of.
The solution is to break up Apple and Google so we actually get some competition in the smartphone market.
I mean, these are things that I'm doing anyway (though it feels futile--so I appreciate the emphasis on these methods being productive). But keeping 1000 bucks from Apple's pocket seems like an easy extra step.Quite the contrary, there is a lot you can do. I would suggest using that iPhone, Android, Mac, PC or whatever other device you prefer to write an article or an essay, create a piece of art, make an app, learn something new, send a loved one a message of support, use it for your job and spend money for a good cause.... There are, actually, a lot of things you can do - with your iPhone (or any other device) for Hong Kong, the world, people around you, yourself. A lot of these things are hard and require thinking and effort, but they can change the world, even if only a little. Boycotting Apple or other companies, however, is not "little", it's "zero" - it literally accomplishes nothing. Because the only thing Apple can do is leave (or be forced out of) China - which won't change anything (in fact, it can actually make things even worse).
So, don't do the easy thing (and boycotting is, actually, very easy, especially if it's selective - which is the case with most people here) - do the difficult thing and make the world just a little bit better.
Yeah it got removed but someone took screenshots of the listDamn, did this OP get removed too? A (perhaps updated from when you posted it) mirror anywhere?
No. Different crime, different time. Or less glibly, take action that is suited to the goals of the movement and to the circumstances.So everybody is going to throw away their iPhones and Airpods and iPads, right?
Reddit is owned by Chinese now too lolDamn, did this OP get removed too? A (perhaps updated from when you posted it) mirror anywhere?
Reddit is owned in parts by Tencent, yeah.
I mean, is there any alternative that isn't bowing down to China?
Tell your shareholders that you value ethics more than a bit of extra profit. It's not like most of these companies were bleeding without China. Also, if you are a CEO getting pressure from your board for taking a moral stance, you should out them by name.
That's why you name and shame. I bet you couldn't tell me a single Apple board member outside of Tim Cook. And that's like knowing who the president is but no senators. But if I started repeating a name do you think the press would start asking questions? Do you think people would start protesting? This is exactly how the Koch brothers got their fame.