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Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by scarface_74 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:55PM (#36470233)
Has the EU also made poverty illegal?
Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by Barrin92 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:44PM (#36470804)
Sort of? Almost all EU countries have social welfare nets and public services strong enough to have people's basic needs covered. I think in most countries welfare even directly covers basic phone plans.

We aren't in a situation where we need to allow environmentally damaging products here for the sake of the poor because they're not out on their own. This sounds like the old pro-sweatshop arguments people sometimes made about developing countries.

Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by scarface_74 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:22PM (#36471155)
Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by TeMPOraL on Sunday June 25, 2023 @06:22PM (#36473249)
Poverty is a relative thing, not absolute. As for your link downthread - homelessness has many more causes than just not being able to afford a place to stay.
Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by scarface_74 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:52PM (#36475576)
So what are those many causes where people have money and choose to live on the streets?