Fuck the economy.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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People will loosen the purse strings once Trump is gone and stability resumes. If they have any money left after Trump is gone.
I think the economy has bigger problems than you not being a good little consumer.
Oh, look, another example of "competition" ruining another feat of humanity
device hoarding
That is not what this is called.
Consumers are being Anticapitalist! This is not a recession! We didn't fire half the country for people to spend less!! Think about our growing profits!!
We should make devices lower quality to increase profits! More failures!
My phone can fuck right off. Other than GPS and music...its really not as valuable as I may have once thought
"A population with skyrocketing costs of living and stagnant wages cutting unnecessary spending, and that's a problem"
29 months is long? What good for "the economy"? New phone every year?
I kept my last phone (pixel 3A) for 6 years. Only got rid of it when it finally stopped charging.
18 months was the figure I once read somewhere. Absolutely ridiculous.
Now I want to hold my devices longer so the economy destroys even faster
Maybe "the economy" should give some more money back to working class people, ya dingdongs
The consequence of squeezing every last cent from people
Fuck the economy. It can eat my ass.
Also with moore's law's death, why the fuck would anybody believe this productivity bullshit? Any device from 5 years ago can do what a device today can.
One more thing, wtf is this entitlement from electronics importers. Apple, google, samsung, etc can all fuck off until they move manufacturing back to north america.
Good. If the economy is designed to only survive with constant spending then fuck it
This is the new avocado toast
PEOPLE AREN'T GIVING US MORE MONEY!
Buy! No money, only buy!
Great! Now we're getting blamed for wrecking the economy because we aren't spending enough of our minimum wages on $2000 phones often enough.
Couldn't have anything to do with redistributing over a trillion dollars a year to Sociopathic Oligarchs, and not taxing them. How about forcing them to give each one of us a new phone every year. Or how about this: Just give us health care, like every other country in the world.
Not buying enough new phones? Go fuck yourself.
What do they think we all want to be influencers in the newest greatest thing. Way overrated. Fuck the economy. Id rather stop contributing to the piles of ewaste.
Omg the poor economy, how could those selfish Americans do that
Let's all feed the "economy beast" with fake, valueless, money tokens and buy hardware, while we all starve. Earn points!
It doesn't cost the economy at all; great efficiency frees up resources for other purposes. The only downside is to the companies that make the devices and rely on planned obsolescence for profitability. The stock market and "the economy" are NOT synonyms.
29 months
squeezing as much life out of your device as possible
FUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUU
Last phone I had for 7 years, through a screen replacement, 2 battery replacements, and a switch to LineageOS.
And I would not even call that "squeezing as much life out of your device as possible".
Last upgrade was forced because of a supposed upgrade to 5g. My network sent me the world's shittiest smartphone to replace my pixel which was 4g only.
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Holy shit keeping a device longer than 2 years is "device hoarding" now? Thats fucking nuts.
How do you invest so much money in a device like that and not make it last? I've got one phone I use for work calls thats 10 years old. People are still shocked I dont even have a case on it.
“device hoarding”
The article about generational wealth is right around the corner I'm sure!
Yeah, fuck that. I'll keep my device as long as possible because of course I would! Try for five years.
"Hording"... The fucking nerve to say that... I am actually offended. Whatever happened to "recycle, reduce, reuse"? What could possible be more irresponsible than constantly replacing your devices?
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This being next to this article https://www.pcworld.com/article/2984629/ram-is-so-expensive-that-stores-are-selling-it-at-market-prices.html
Is pure real life comedy gold.
"The economy" can once again be replaced with "rich people's yacht money"
What kind of twatwaffle writes this crap. Fuck your planned obsolescence.
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Where’s that cartoon about financial news stories making much more sense if you replace the words “the economy” with “rich people’s boat money”?
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