• Gabu@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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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      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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        1 year 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        It doesn’t stop working just because it’s no longer updated.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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            1 year 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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              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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                1 year 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.