black_zion wrote: Surprised the liberal nutjobs in California didn't propose this bill, considering they were the ones who just proposed a bill to fine businesses $1,000 if they gave a plastic drinking straw to a customer without asking. |
Hardly surprising... Californians / Far Left individuals will loudly bang the drum of Virtue Signalling, right up to the point until it affects someone or something they know.
How many iPhone / iPad / Apple Users do you know visit Wendys or McDonalds?
Not many... but Starbucks, is damn near a Temple for them. Yet the Travel Lids for their Cups uses 4x the Plastic than Drinking Straws AND aren't made out of Biodegradable / Synthetic Plastic as Drinking Straws actually must be nowadays due to Health Regulations.
Heck, most will harp on about how they're all for "Fair Wages for All" ... yet constantly advocate for nonsense that harms Working Class Wages, and give zero though to the fact that their overpriced Apple Product was produced by Underpaid, Overworked Asians whom have become so suicidal with the working conditions that said Production Factories have Fences on the Roofs to prevent them from jumping off of them on a regular basis.
Apple, a literal Trillion Dollar company is perhaps in one of the best positions to resolve this... by increasing Wages and driving Employment Competition towards themselves., which would force a competitive "Fair Wage" environment to ensue as other companies will seek to stave off Apple Monopolising the Production Facilities and Best Workers.
Except, Apple aren't doing diddly squat towards such end.
And we're not talking the same scenario as Microsoft who outsources production to Chinese Companies that bid for said contracts., Apple actually OWN the damn Production Facilities they have over there.
You'll see this behaviour a lot from the Easily Offended Lobbyists... the reality is they don't actually give a damn beyond their own egocentrism, even then they only care what people think within their own circles in terms of their virtuous visage. They wouldn't care what we think, only their friends; who also are content to have the exact same blind spots when it comes to monstrous behaviour.
I mean why do you think those who complain about Diversity / Racism., are typically those who are Stereotypical Racists themselves. It's because they assume the entire world views and thinks the same way they do because all of their friends do. Yet given they only make friends with people who agree and support them, well that's hardly bloody surprising.
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Now that there is looking to finally be some regulation on Anti-Consumer Business Practises is actually a good thing, at least when it comes to the US.
We already have that here in the UK, which is why a lot of IHV actually don't do R&D here in the British Isles anymore. Any products can be sold here, but if you design deliberate flaws and weakness' that are Anti-Consumer then your company becomes liable... I'd probably be in favour of an expansion to the Anti-Consumer regulations inline with the "Right to Self-Repair"., as said products once sold ARE the property of the Consumer not Producer. Warranties were introduced (as an Anti-Consumer Protection) to essentially hold Companies accountable to a minimum lifespan.
Still such things aren't just about the Consumer being able to have their product Repaired but actually what Apple are doing is outright destroying the 3rd Party Repair and Refurbishment Industry... especially given their monopolisation of particular sectors. If anything it could be argued that legislation of this nature isn't just for Anti-Consumer but Anti-Trust aspects as well.
