So you think manufacturers of expensive products are "greedy?" The argument could easily be made that the greediest manufacturers are those who make cheap, under-engineered products sold in places like Walmart.
Exactly so.
As for having a footprint on/in the world and the environment, the cheap blu ray players and such are among the worst. High end audio remains in service about 10x-15x longer than the cheap cd/dvd/etc players.
However, with it all going digital, this equation has changed.
Failures due to over complexity (the ever shifting digital) and format changes have pushed +$1k home theater receivers to being nearly in a garbage can, after a few years. (maybe 5-6-7 years, in some cases) We see 5-6-7 year old home theater processors being left by the wayside, even when their prices are reduced by a factor of 5 or 10 from the original retail. I exaggerate on this, but by so little.... that few will call me on it.
Manufacturers encourage complex designs that fail quick and charge insane prices for repairs, in order to kill repair viability and force new purchases. So their dedication to the environment can be seen to be pure publicity level lip service and in the real world ..to only to go as far as sucking hard on your wallet. At the cost of everything else.
This is the ethical garbage can that consumer level electronics like cell phones and computers, laptops, tvs, etc...all exist in.
If one saw the recycle and disposal end of the deal up front and personal... then they’d see that this is insanity -- and cannot continue.
Stop lights are only put in at the given intersection after maybe 4 people die at that location. We’ve only got one world and one environment, but the problem is, is that the human mind and body, right to the cellular and down at even the simple amoeba level, was designed, genetically, from the get go, to be reactive, not proactive.
As reaction can be autonomous, programmed, etc...,and is, by design. It might be said to be the very fabric of life and it’s expression. We each do it, a good few thousand times a day, one might say.
Proactive requires intelligence and intelligence/musing/etc is a very late and still simplistic addition to the idea of DNA and it’s expression (meaning: all that lives).
An important thing to understand is that your brain was designed for only very intermittent use of your so called intelligence. it was designed and runs in a way that conserves the use of mind and as it take energy to fire it up and run it. So it was designed to come on line only very seldom. That is what brain fade is many times all about. The shut down after a short run. It’s literally a normal part of the brain wiring and use routine.
The vast majority of your so called non sleeping conscious time, is actually spent in a powerful semi-hypnotic mentally disabled or mentally sedentary/stilled state. People like Elon Musk,etc.. are exceptions, ones where they manage to keep the brain fired up for longer than the norm (as part of their outlier package). Which has it’s own issues, as the mind and body are not designed for it.
