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We used to have earbuds that don't need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn't get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is tough -

Making consumer electronics cheap crap that breaks easily and everything of decent quality prohibitively expensive is 100% on the greedy corporations, not their victims the consumers.

(US here) Gets me thinking about dollar store headphones. Consumers could buy decent headphones for about $10 direct from overseas. When that’s equivalent to more than an hour of wages, there’s still demand for the $1 version. Should this need not be met out of a sense of social responsibility?

(I don’t have a perfect answer myself)

Econ 101 on my mind here btw:

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that our economic system has encouraged an environment where reputation is a thing to be immediately cashed out. You can't even know if those $10 earbuds are any better than the $1 version.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You can make some reasonable assumptions although they will be imperfect:

Wouldn’t be as frequently imperfect if freaking review fraud weren’t entirely ubiquitous (grrrr)