Precisely. They used to make better products than they do now.

The problems with their products got worse generation on generation. Their older products were more reliable.

the old people around me don’t think they are millionaires, they think they are poor and struggling

I’m not you. There are no ev charging stations in rural areas where I go. it’s just woods.

which old people?

the ones around me have about 50 million in the bank, but yeah would whine a movie ticket is too much. but they have no problem flying to europe every other month.

they do make those movies. they don’t make any money, because old people don’t want to see them either and don’t want to look at old people.

the smartphone space has way more competition and their market is literally everyone on the planet. there are 6 billion smart phone buyers.

the vast vast majority of whom, do not need the power in most phones. there is no demand for improving phones, they have peaked. Phones are a commodity at this point, like your average desktop/laptop.

make action cameras that people want to buy?

instead of pushing the same product with minor updates for greater costs which bring no benefit to the consumer?

Which will be 20 years.

People seem to forget gas cars took 50+ years to become widely adopted. They were not really accessible to the middle and lower classes until after WW2.

For some reason people here just want to scream and moan and browbeat anyone who doesn’t want to buy an EV today, when they are unaffordable, inconvenient, and make zero sense unless all you do is commute to work and run local errands. Lots of vehicles are used for different purposes.

accountability is to the shareholders. not the employees.

yes, and infect pets and can infect people, though that’s not it’s primary target.

it’s fucking awful. and it’s easily preventable. but we simply stopped doing the hard work of prevention because of cost-cutting.

human beings don’t like direct/personal accountability, and will pay lots of money to avoid it.

easiest way to do this is to blame a third party for ‘forcing’ you to do things.

people do it all the time in their personal lives too. the sales person ‘forced’ them to buy something, etc.

have you met people?

oh it was intentional, not a mistake. i just find it awesome how pointing out problematic sexist behaviors gets you labeled sexist and toxic, but yeah it’s the internet, it’s absurd. every OP is a tragic hero, and every reply is an evil villain and all that.

and if you reply you are ‘mad’.

it’s a good meme.

so you’re trolling, ok.

I live in America. We do love our violence and our paranoia and anxiety about other people, and our deeply rooted racism and sexism.

No. I’m quiet and I leave people alone. But my entire life people have told me being quiet and minding my own business makes me a jerk. Probably because they can’t stand someone being quiet and minding their own business.

It’s why I’m happier single. Because I don’t bother anyone, and my exes always wanted me to start shit and bother people.

No, but I meet a lot of people like you. Who randomly come up to me, lecture me, and then tell me what a jerk I am… for reading a book they don’t like, not smiling enough, or other weird crazy shit. And they never considered that maybe they are the asshole, and I’m just minding my own business. Weird, right? How do you think they would feel if someone would randomly come up to them and harass them and lecture them?

Almost like you’re the type of person I’m talking about… no, but clearly I’m the problem because I said something that you found upsetting…

yep. also like… has this person been in a relationship?

my exes loved it when I was a raging asshole to other people. they hate it when I was nice to them. it was morally repulsive to me how ‘hot’ it made them. they loved impulse to anger and violence, and were ‘turned off’ it when i was reasonable and calm. because people calm and kind isn’t ‘strong’ or ‘manly’.

sadly a lot of people are driven by biological/cultural defaults, and one of those men must be violent and hostile to prove their ability to ‘protect’ the women/children. and they look down on more socially benevolent behaviors.

idiots tend to propagate stupid ideas because it makes them feel smart.

it’s not like this ‘if men got pregnant’ line of thinking is anything new, it’s been around since forever.

it doesn’t surprise me. most people are incredibly petty and bitter towards other people who have slightly more or less than them. and it only ever seems to get worse. they only want themselves to get more, and want everyone else to get less.

and if you say you are for broad-based economic growth, people just straight up hate you. it’s socially unacceptable to desire this. you have to want others to suffer.

i have worked in public policy for 5 years after college. the one thing i learned, is EVERYONE hates fair economics and good economic policy, because they feel it’s only ‘really fair’ if they are winning and other people are losing.

you have to remember, the vast majority of people operate purely on personal feelings. that includes the wealthy and elite-educated who think they are ‘above’ the rest of the population.