Fairphone is not like Purism

[Emma]

@Hristo

user0, can you tell me, what do the problems in the US have to do with me not wanting to support the Chinese government?

Nothing at all. I agree with your sentiment to avoid Chinese goods. I was just bothered by the specific question you asked and the fact that no one responded to it. I don’t think that the US caused the Russian invasion into Ukraine, and I don’t see the US as an evil mastermind causing all world problems. I just think that we need to separate the US government from the US corporations that control it if we want to understand the workings of the USA as a whole.

@irvinewade

How about all the off-topic stuff (unrelated to Fairphone) forks off into Round Table ?

My only objection to this is that I will no longer be able to read any more replies without logging in, which I rarely do. I really think the Round Table discussions should be publicly viewable without the login requirement.

@dcz

please support your claims with some evidence.

I was really just trying to keep my comment from becoming a wall of text. It’s not really evidence but imagination that’s needed to demonstrate what I was suggesting.

• Opportunity costs of investing money in military interventions instead of “in a different way” is a problem for the US government, not US corporations. What evidence would demonstrate this? It is obvious, right? The US government pays these costs with taxpayer money. Certain corporations get government funding which comes from taxpayers.

• Costs of the lost workforce? I don’t think one can argue that makes sense now with the scale of the US population in modern times, but again, that is not a cost to the corporations that gain the workforce and profit from the wars.

• Compensations for veterans is again not a problem to the corporations profitting from wars; they do not pay those costs.

• Side effects like drug addictions are again not a cost to the corporations. However, some other corporations can potentially profit from those addictions, like we saw with the opioid crisis (which I think was the original meaning of this point).

I wasn’t trying to argue with anyone. I just felt bothered by that question and the lack of responses to it, and I decided to respond after having logged in to post on two completely unrelated topics (that I hope get more attention than my posts on this one).