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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please stop buying these & they will stop making them.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is capitalism, they will stop making the normal fridges and only make these fucking things. The only power customers truly have is through regulation(though we should still boycott things because it still helps).

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Then people will claim no one was buying the normal ones. *looks at light trucks and smartphones with a headphone jack*

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or all the automatics in the states, or all the cars that only seem to come in black, white, or silver. Can also look at a lot of food, especially in food deserts, or public transit being gutted when ridership is low(because it was never funded in the first place).

People need to pay literally any kind of attention. I feel like this information, with studies to back it up that also aren’t by conservative think-tanks, is so readily available and yet also there are people who have zero clue about anything, like you’re saying.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

In which case a new industry appears that makes smart appliances stupid.

[–] sureshot@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago

That's not really true, we're at the point where oligarchs basically have the unlimited money glitch, they don't give a fuck about what the consumers ask for and just demand that we want things that help them screw us over. That's why every job and every application process demands that prospective employees have their own car and their own smartphone.