The washington post is run by Israeli genocide apologists. Stop giving them attention.
I’m not a billionaire and I don’t want lower prices. I want an income, and I want higher prices overall, with some pockets of price stability on stuff like housing and locally grown vegetables. Housing and local vegetables (in some areas) are very rare examples of things that have gone too far with price increases. Prices on most things are too low due to anti-environmental subsidies.
I want a society that subsidizes protecting the environment, not destroying it. I want the cost of my phone to help cover cleaning up after the factory that made it, instead of having the cost of my house and food help cover cleaning up the news headlines about pollution.
I want my phone to be $5000 and last 10 years while the cheapest shittiest phone that lasts 1 year still can’t be less than $4000 (due to taxes) so that everyone saves up for 10 years to buy the $5000 phone and nobody fucking bothers making shit that only lasts a year.
And I want to pay for my phone in the transaction where I buy the phone, not in other transactions where I comply with a housing system that keeps others homeless and some of my money goes towards stuff like phones and shipping routes for them.
Bro/sis, before the tariffs I was able to build a mid end PC for $1000, it does way more than a smart phone. There is no logical reason why a smart phone should cost $5000. You’re getting down voted because the numbers you are throwing out are completely disconnected from reality. Manufacturing costs for a smartphone are like $500 tops.Another source on manufacturing costs. The actual people assembling them make something along the lines of $3-4 an hour, and that’s being generous.
The washington post is run by Israeli genocide apologists. Stop giving them attention.
I’m not a billionaire and I don’t want lower prices. I want an income, and I want higher prices overall, with some pockets of price stability on stuff like housing and locally grown vegetables. Housing and local vegetables (in some areas) are very rare examples of things that have gone too far with price increases. Prices on most things are too low due to anti-environmental subsidies.
I want a society that subsidizes protecting the environment, not destroying it. I want the cost of my phone to help cover cleaning up after the factory that made it, instead of having the cost of my house and food help cover cleaning up the news headlines about pollution.
I want my phone to be $5000 and last 10 years while the cheapest shittiest phone that lasts 1 year still can’t be less than $4000 (due to taxes) so that everyone saves up for 10 years to buy the $5000 phone and nobody fucking bothers making shit that only lasts a year.
And I want to pay for my phone in the transaction where I buy the phone, not in other transactions where I comply with a housing system that keeps others homeless and some of my money goes towards stuff like phones and shipping routes for them.
And as long as I have no income, all prices are too high for me to begin with, so it’s all a moot point if you’re not going to let me have an income.
Bro/sis, before the tariffs I was able to build a mid end PC for $1000, it does way more than a smart phone. There is no logical reason why a smart phone should cost $5000. You’re getting down voted because the numbers you are throwing out are completely disconnected from reality. Manufacturing costs for a smartphone are like $500 tops. Another source on manufacturing costs. The actual people assembling them make something along the lines of $3-4 an hour, and that’s being generous.