Is the onus on the consumer? As much as I hate to say it I am pretty judgemental when it comes to people paying for subscriptions.
While its wholly negative to have this mind set in the modern world is it such a bad thing.
Like if we were all in a Lemmy community swimming pool and 80% of lemmys where pissing in that pool would I be unjust to be mad, my thought pattern here is by people supporting the subscription model will impacts everyone and it goes further than just more subscription only content, it impacts hardware where a lot of iot device and gaming device are less about serving the enjoyable media/useful features and more offering a portal to subscription services which impacts usabilities like rooting, custom ROMs, emulation, general tinkering, now every modern console, shady iot device has some kind of encrypted lock or circumventing that lock will also attract negative attention from corpos. At what point will consumer PCs start running locked down software with a locked bootloader.
Should we as consumers stop buying game pass, Disney plus, vibrating massarg rings, mill kits, cable TV. As to not incentives corporations.
I hope I’m not doom saying just general frustration and concern for what the future will hold. And I’d like to see what the general concus is on the subject
Most of the consumers don’t care. Also, ethical and sustainable products are often more expensive and/or less convenient than evil ones (why would anyone buy an evil product if it’s not cheaper (or “cheaper”) anyways?). And I think there may be a similar trend to that “life constantly in debt” thing from the 19th century going on now (at least in my county). Both consumers and companies are guilty for the current situation but informing people is better than just blaming in my opinion. I’d also suggest you to do blaming/ranting in appropriate communities to get less hate in return
I agree and thank you for your response. I understand and should of prefaced with “there is nuance” but as a hole people really don’t care, apple have suicide nets around they’re factory’s yet its the most popular phone in western markets, I am sure my devices come from a similar place maybe worse. As to posting to a suitable community, I wasn’t entirely sure where to post I saw someone post about Nintendo and didn’t want to ramble on they’re post about my perceived state of the world but even so I am okay with hate, being humbled.
I don’t necessarily think people are incapable of caring about it, but that waking life, work, and our current state of the world are quite stressful and complex, and people are really only capable of caring about so many things at one time, and that usually gets eaten up by immediate problems that are specific from person to person.
You won’t get an otherwise good guy to care enough about this sort of thing to make a stand if he’s too busy taking care of a sick, dependent family member, or if he’s depressed and self medicating with alcohol. I think it’s on the people for not caring enough, but it’s also not on the people for having a biological limit to how much you can be engaged with and care about at a time.
It’s also on the governments, big companies, other significant influence entities for making everything more and more complicated so people can’t care about it (talking about privacy policies, contracts and that kind of stuff here)