How do I be a good consumer
How do I be a good consumer
Adam Hernandez
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Benjamin Brown
man, that artwork..
the ruskies are crazy
Parker Wilson
spend 30% of your money on common things you either actually need or sort-of-actually need.
save 30% of your money for expensive things you don't need or expensive emergencies.
give 30% of your money to the government (taxes) and to charity.
spend the last 10% on drugs, booze, and porn
Asher Lewis
Buy shit you don't need.
Jace King
Like Apple products.
Easton Parker
What if I have no money
John Wilson
Chose to buy the right product to influence the market.
The right product is the one that establishes competition on the market.
The wrong product is the one that establishes a monopoly on the market.
One example:
Buying AMD is the only sane choice, because Intel already has the market dominance (many exclusive deals, i.e. thinkpads are only manufatured with intel chips these days).
So if you buy Intel, you estabish a monopoly which allows intel to rais the prises. If you buy AMD you establish competiton.
If this isn't possible, you can still look which company is more likable (instead of simply getting converted by advertisement). For example their policy, their products, the way they manufacture things (countries, standards).
Capitalism isn't inherently bad, but it's the customers that make the rules. If customers are stupid you will get a stupid market when people buy bling-bling products like the iPhone. If customer demand cool products, companies are forced to to make good stuff.
Simple, isn't it?
Jeremiah Mitchell
Wrong
Jonathan Cox
The only buy power that influences computing power and market dominance is enterprise and governments which have a task at hand for that computing power.
Ex: USA with budget and a need to spy people, simulate - process data for mars mission - new doomsday weapon - etc.
Communist China in modern world that's pushing the limits of what could be achieved in a fucked up communism shithole.
So you buying AMD over Intel changes nothing.
Gabriel Lewis
Get a loan and buy an iPhone X if you wanna be a good goy
Wyatt Richardson
Max out you're credit and keep your nose to the grindstone. Keep up with the Jones's, and strive for those sweet, sweet status symbols that appear so desirable in the advertisments the botnet has targeted at you. Give no thought to the child laborers who endure horrid conditions to produce them, and focus on being a good little sheeple as you navigate the surveillance network that is your cyber playground.
Connor Kelly
This is an excellent post. Thanks for the insight, user.
Hunter Barnes
>you need to buy inferior products as charity from inferior companies to maintain healthy competition
Wroooooooooooooong. Monopolies are still subject to consumer whims, which is why they can only exist in a free market by continuing to sell the best, cheapest product.
Jonathan Peterson
Listen everyone we need to stop this right now
Jose Peterson
But, whatever you do, keep your cynicism in check. And keep your cliches up to date.
Lucas Baker
Why
William Campbell
That's 110% of my money you fucking retard
Austin Johnson
There's no real morality inherent in consumption. The "consumers" as a class of low-to-average-IQ people with low incomes, who keep themselves in a state of wage-slavery, exist to be harvested for revenue. They aren't so much cogs in the machine as they are the grease to keep it going, completely temporal and disposable. And as far as employment is concerned, they are bio-capital, meant to be bought sold as wage-slaves by larger companies. These consumers are of no consequence to history; if exceptional individuals can be thought as successful experiments in human progress, consumers are the failed experiments. They are primarily guided by the hippocampus, the more primitive, early part of the brain which is associated with hunger, reproductive urges, etc. Again, there is no morality in this equation at all, there may be perceived ethics but it is completely devoid of virtues.
Samuel Parker
Lincoln Mitchell
> 1/3 = 30%
Wut
Carson Brown
Don't buy things you don't need, learn how to fix up things. If you really need something, do extensive research on which brand and model is the best suited to your needs. Cut yourself off of advertisement as much as possible, if somebody is not critical enough about something, be careful.
Capitalism works if the consumer is intelligent. Vote with your wallet and only gove your money to people who deserve it. Keep in mind that your money is better in your poket than in a corporation's poket.
Easton Bennett
>charity
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Jace Ortiz
Spend money on things no normal person would
Like paid apps, paid porn, microtransactions im video games, buying a new phone every year, a new smartwatch every year, subscribing to dozens of streaming services all at once...
Jacob Price
be like him :)
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Jacob Butler
30+30+30+10=100
Retard
John Hernandez
be a mancher """"united""" supporter
Bentley Price
be amerifat. done.
Hunter Rogers