Manufacturer’s profits before environment

We (the ‘consumers’/shoppers according to their labels) are told/enticed/guilted/taxed into devoting a lot of resources in order to (allegedly) ‘save the planet’.

The problem there is that the manufacturers, corporations and governments are realistically in charge of this.

E-waste is a huge problem, both financially for the consumers and a burden on the environment which could have been being solved a few decades ago, but the corporation’s profits are of utmost priority or importance where governments 'support' this as, it's all about the economy.

For example, proprietary phone chargers could have been dealt with a couple of decades ago, but the manufacturers deliberately have not agreed on a so called standard, where the alleged pressure form governments now is too little too late.

In the case of printers, cartridges are deliberately priced where they can be more expensive than a purchase of a new printer with cartridges, where even manufactures chip the ink cartridge in order to gouge the customer for the consumable, another government 'supported' action against the consumer. 

Cartridges for the Epson WF-3820

Computer manufacturers could have designed a modular laptop with the specific goal of upgradable parts, but the major players have steered away from this for mega profits, in turn creating huge e-waste issues.

See review by Hugh Jeffreys on the upgradable laptop by Framework (https://frame.work/au/en):

Hugh Jeffreys is an advocate for your 'right to repair' the product you have purchased, meaning to take it to any (competent) repair premises instead of being locked into the manufacturer's price gouging policies.

Apple have also taken away your ‘right to repair’ the product you bought, therefore supporting the notion that you do not own it, 'trending' to a pay as a service model corporations are implementing, e.g. Microsoft.

So Hewlett Packard, Dell or Lenovo or even Apple could not make a laptop of this calibre?

Of course they could have, as this is not a new concept, they just didn’t want to.

The burden to allegedly change the world is not on the individual but for worldwide oligarchical regimes to lead the way.

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