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SW-User
Don’t buy anything else for the rest of your life.
Redstar · 36-40, M
@SW-User I was mostly just talking about how I felt about a thing. Which is what this place is for.
But the problem is that anytime someone talks about this kind of thing, there's always people who for some reason feel the need to reply with some smart ass remark like yours.
I know a lot of the things we buy were made under awful conditions, to say the least, that doesn't mean we can't talk about it and be against it. You can try to find out which companies are better to buy from but they tend to hide the truth. Apple allegedly doesn't use child labour anymore but I doubt that's true, they probably just got sneakier about it.
It's not like we can't have clothes not made through forced labour, Apple could also continue making their products while paying their workers properly with better conditions, I mean it's not like they couldn't afford to. So we can have a lot of the same stuff and change how we get it. I know I wont be making a difference with this post but if no one ever talks about it, then there's 0 chance of anything ever changing.
And this particular post of mine isn't even about the products so much, it's more about Steve Jobs and people getting all pissy when I dare to mention the fact of what a despicable excuse for a human being he was.
But the problem is that anytime someone talks about this kind of thing, there's always people who for some reason feel the need to reply with some smart ass remark like yours.
I know a lot of the things we buy were made under awful conditions, to say the least, that doesn't mean we can't talk about it and be against it. You can try to find out which companies are better to buy from but they tend to hide the truth. Apple allegedly doesn't use child labour anymore but I doubt that's true, they probably just got sneakier about it.
It's not like we can't have clothes not made through forced labour, Apple could also continue making their products while paying their workers properly with better conditions, I mean it's not like they couldn't afford to. So we can have a lot of the same stuff and change how we get it. I know I wont be making a difference with this post but if no one ever talks about it, then there's 0 chance of anything ever changing.
And this particular post of mine isn't even about the products so much, it's more about Steve Jobs and people getting all pissy when I dare to mention the fact of what a despicable excuse for a human being he was.