• OpenStars@piefed.social
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    20 hours ago

    They would not sell (nor profit) something that people refuse to buy.

    We are the ones doing this.

    • Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      They would not sell (nor profit) something that people refuse to buy.

      So they are wasting money on hiring advertising and marketing companies?

      Then there’s also planned obsolescence and licensing deals that make it impossible to continue using and repairing things (even mechanical things like tractors, and living organisms like crop seeds).

      Sure, people can try their best, but there is only so far we can go before it gets so inconvenient to not fall into the consumerism trap.

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        13 hours ago

        Their marketing strategy isn’t just blaming the consumer, it is to sell that their product is “sustainable and green”, and people instead of not buying, they buy their “sustainable and green” product that shouldn’t even exist in the first place. So no, they are not wasting money on marketing, they just changed the strategy.

        Coming back to people, have you tried convince someone to change their preferred message app even knowing that belongs to an evil company and making the change being a literal 5 minute task?

        In my experience people aren’t even trying. Just blaming the same way companies and politicians do. If we really try our best many things would have changed already. I believe that everything we have now is just a mirror of our collective greed, and we are doomed if we expect the other to change anything.

        • quack@lemmy.zip
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          8 hours ago

          Everyone wants change, no one wants to change. It’s a tale as old as time.

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      14 hours ago

      carbon footprint is a psyop by gas companies to make people feel like individuals are responsible for climate change not them