Do people actually watch youtube on their TVs?
Yeah. Only ad free though.
However, what folks seem to forget is the effectiveness of a widespread boycott ala Budlight.
Let me ask you a hypothetical. Do you think it would be possible for people to boycott both Apple and Google?
If so explain how that would work.
LMAO! Just buy a repair friendly phone.
There’s not a lot of them? Welp, guess it’s a tiny market. That sucks.
This is the typical lolbertarian attitude.
You guys don't think deeply about anything.
If a river runs through my property which boats use for commerce, and I put a rope across it and start charging a toll, do you see a problem with that?
When immensely powerful market incumbents like Google and Apple erect barriers to entry, you don't have a free market.
With a combined market cap of $6 trillion, Apple and Google together are larger than the GDP of France, Italy, and Brazil combined.
With that enormous economic power they can ensure that they don't have any true competitors, because the barrier to entry is so high it's almost impossible to compete with them without the backing of Blackrock or other insiders close to the money spigot.
Can you call up Goldman Sachs and borrow $100 million to start a business? Or $1 million? Would they even return your phone call? There's a reason Matt Tiabbi calls Goldman Sachs "Vampire Squid" - because they suck the economic blood from Main St and give it to Wall St.
Anyone considering Google, Apple, Goldman and Blackrock part of the "free market" doesn't understand the structure of reality. The money spigot picks winners and losers, not us.
How many people have been de-banked for their political beliefs? How many banks and credit card processors has Josh gone through? Even his legal defense fund's payment processor got shut down. Is that indictive of a healthy free market or of a monopoly hiding in plain sight?
When your TV or fridge breaks, do you open it and start pulling out compressors and cathode ray tubes? Or call the TV/fridge repairman?
Nope, you buy another one because it’s a commodity.
This is dumb as shit and makes me wonder if you've actually had to struggle for anything in your life.
I'll bet you've never heard this one before:
Use it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do,
Or do without.
When my fridge broke I pulled the control board and repaired it myself.
And if it didn't know how to do that I'd call someone who did.
The idea that you throw something away when it breaks is such a wasteful concept, and no, the "market" didn't decide this idea, because we don't live in a free market.
Government and large multinational corporations have an outsized effect on the business environment, and they work hand in glove to ensure they stay powerful.
Basic right-to-repair (R2R) legislation is generally common sense and in the public interest, and only someone who drank the "big L Libertarian" Cato Institute kool aid would oppose it. (Cato wrings their hands
about right-to-repair legislation increasing greenhouse gasses. Who believes this WEF / Club of Rome bullshit?)
Planned obsolescence didn't fall from the sky; it's only possible because there are too few competitors in a given domain. There are no competitors because of the incumbents' strength and 'insider' status, and the enormous economic barriers to entry.
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