• @FooBarrington
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    1 month ago

    iPhones also weren’t produced with the hopes that people would buy them, Apple did extensive market research. Had they found that people wouldn’t buy them, they wouldn’t have produced them. Have you ever looked into how product development happens?

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      -31 month ago

      it was still hope. they couldn’t possibly know the future.

      • @FooBarrington
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        31 month ago

        No, it’s not hope, it’s market research and statistics. You do understand the difference, right?

        • NSRXN
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          -31 month ago

          they don’t know the future. they hope their research is correct.

          • @FooBarrington
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            31 month ago

            Then everything for the future is purely hope. You eat a steak? I sure hope it doesn’t turn into lava in your stomach! You enter a car? Better hope it doesn’t turn into a crocodile and swallow you!

            Must be a strange life you’re leading, but anything you can tell yourself to ease your conscience. Surely the same number of cows would be killed if nobody ate any meat, they could always hope that tomorrow people start again!

            • NSRXN
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              -11 month ago

              to an extent you’re right, but I understand the laws of physics. markets are not dictated by anything like the laws of physics.

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                01 month ago

                Better hope the laws of physics don’t magically change!

                • NSRXN
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                  01 month ago

                  if they were subject to the whims of irrational actors, I might worry more.

            • NSRXN
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              -11 month ago

              cows were killed before anybody bought meat. there is no reason to believe that will stop even if you stop buying it.

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                1 month ago

                Are you a bad faith troll, or is this supposed to be a serious argument?

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                    41 month ago

                    That’s sad, what an illogical approach to an ethical dilemma.

                    “Oh well, people died before laws were introduced, may as well go on a killing spree” - right? Nothing else matters?