But Data, you can't use the contracted form... Oh no!
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With tech it's about convenience imo. I am privacy-concious, trying to avoid services like google, but a game's EULA? scrolls to the bottom Accepted. Do Russians mine bitcoins on my machine? Is Unity surveilling me? Who knows.
Then of course these brands put a lot of effort into strengthening consumer loyalty. Make their stores a nice place to be, offer plans especially to minors, so they get used to their products and eco-systems early on. For example Google's ChromeOS laptops in schools. They are cheap and... well... are cheap.
But overall, I think consumers do not realize what they are buying because many buy impulsively, or simply don't know or care about the impact of their purchases. And to some degree, who can blame them? Who has the energy to sort through anything in the grocery store and determine which products are produced through slavery, animal cruelty, stealing the local population's water, aren't sourced locally etc. Because at that point, there's probably nothing left.
The moment you try to min max the economy will fall apart. Replicate new PC parts? Cool, but now intel/AMD/Nvidia will go bankrupt, no more development. So I guess you could min-max the economical revolution. Capitalism doesn't appear to make sense in a world with near endless access to anything.
Personally I'd get heaps of food and water
I hate that by now, I have found a way for capitalist to bill you anyways.
Andor. It feels so different and it is interesting because it builds the empire, but somehow it just felt too different. I watched a video essay about it recently, where the essayist made the point that he loves it for being more serious and darker in tone than most other Star Wars Media. I wonder if seen through this lens I'd enjoy it more during a rewatch.