If someone advocates for high prices on products that do social and/or environmental harm¹ as a means for harm reduction, are they “classist”?

① e.g.:

* cars (registration, parking, procurement, etc)
* fuel for cars
* air travel
* animal products
* vented tumble dryers
* hardware w/ #designedObsolescence

“qyes” → qualified yes

#poll #askFedi

/cc @CorvidCrone

@davidnjoku I must say the results are disturbing. The hardware lasts 10+ yrs (which i know b/c my Android 2.3 device still works).

The poll shows how many people are suckered by #designedObsolescence & support the corporate greed that drives it. I refuse to upgrade. Software makers pushing ppl into chronic upgrades & landfills full of phones can f-off.

My bank has to pay a staff member to do transactions for me b/c their app demands a new phone. So there’s some #poeticJustice.

@potungthul Yeah, for sure there should be a special place in hell for the self-destructing apps that maximize the harms of #designedObsolescence. Unmandated SDK bumps are still harmful b/c users are still enticed to replace perfectly good hardware, but to a lesser extent. In picking battles, #Wire & #Tutanota are relatively evil this regard. Both those apps suffer from dev incompetence as well

The fewer apps you install on your #Android, the less chance there is that you’ll be forced to buy new hardware simply to keep an app running. #Tutanota, #Jami, #Wire, #OSMand & even the #FDroid app itself have all pushed these silent ultamatims to users to force them back into the marketplace. #designedObsolescence #climateChange

@kino

Seminal text from the (early) 1960s:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250912.The_Waste_Makers

#TheWasteMakers #VancePackard #DesignedObsolescence
#InbuiltObsolescence

@rathantara @rugk I don’t see the point with fingerpointing between mfrs and Google. When all manufacturers & phone carriers bundle in proprietary blobs, then neglect updates in a #designedObsolescence move, that shits on the whole Android ecosystem. You can blame Google for using a license that gives manufacturers the option to do what corporations do. The users got fucked on that deal regardless.

The only way this makes sense is maybe the #tile manufacturers deliberately want colors to slightly change so that when you break a tile 5 yrs later or do a partial demolition, you can’t get a match and so you have to retile the whole room. That’s the only reason I can think of. #designedObsolescence

@okpierre @float13 Dear #Roku refugees stung by #designedObsolescence: you might want to get behind this bug report to port VLC to old Rokus: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/24998