Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand
by mythhouse on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:09PM
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i was talking about EV not smartphone wrt cobalt.
> We all have to pick and choose our battles
yes agreed why not choose the most egregious then if you are taking a moral stance. Children digging out cobalt with their bare hands for your EV should outrank whatever stupid stuff elon is doing. no?
Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand
by benj111 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:06PM
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Right but if there's a choice of 2 EVs without Congolese cobalt, you can choose the one that isn't Tesla.
But anyway, humans aren't perfectly rational beings. Elon being a nob on twitter is more immediate to many people than abstract children in the Congo. I'm not saying that's morally correct, but it's how people work.
A. The parent has a smart phone.
B. The parents smart phone contains cobalt from the Congo.
C. That the parent isn't doing anything to minimise their purchase of new phones by using them longer, only buying second hand etc.
And that's all assuming that this is indeed a value they hold.
And even with all that, there's plenty of stuff wrong with the world. For a multi thousand dollar purchase I'd spend more time thing about the ethical implications than something that is smaller. We all have to pick and choose our battles, I don't think you can damn anyone for not being happy about the system but still engaging with it.