Re:History Will Not Be Kind to Jony Ive
by toss1 on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:07PM
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The article has an excellent main point -- that repairability and modularity are valuable.
You complain "we live in a free market". Of course we do.
One of the key features of a free market is that it rewards not only better products, but it also very handsomely rewards people/companies who can externalize costs -- optimize one thing that makes profits for them, while leaving the society or the planet to pay the costs.
You apparently advocate a commercial ethos where it is good to trash the commons, as long as you can make a profit.
Just because trashing the commons can result in a company becoming one of the largest in the world, does not mean that any criticism of it is trash.
You complain "we live in a free market". Of course we do.
One of the key features of a free market is that it rewards not only better products, but it also very handsomely rewards people/companies who can externalize costs -- optimize one thing that makes profits for them, while leaving the society or the planet to pay the costs.
You apparently advocate a commercial ethos where it is good to trash the commons, as long as you can make a profit.
Just because trashing the commons can result in a company becoming one of the largest in the world, does not mean that any criticism of it is trash.