I have a samsung galaxy S2 from 2010. Ethical Consumption under capitalism does not exist (pic 1 and 2). Moreover technically speaking, Capitalism did not, in fact, make the iPhone, Labor did. The ‘-ism’ merely determines who gets paid. Also, most of the technology present in the iPhone actually originated in the State sector, not the so-called ‘free market.’ the only capitalist part of the iphone, its marketing. Its actual design, components etc. etc. are government funded and researched thus making the phone itself a product of the state. Making it a publicly sold item doesn't make it a capitalist creation, it is a capitalist use of a non-capitalist creation. As Mariana Mazzucato writes in an article for New Scientist, “In [Apple’s] early stages the company received government cash support via a $500,000 small business investment company grant. And every technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone owes its vision and funding to the state: the internet, GPS, touchscreen displays and even the voice-activated smartphone assistant Siri all received state cash. The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) bankrolled the internet, and the CIA and the military funded GPS. So, although the US is sold to us as the model example of progress through private enterprise, innovation there has benefited from a very interventionist state.” It is not the case even in theory that capitalism or ‘the free market,’ made the iPhone. At least, not the sort of capitalism people who make this argument usually advocate for. I would also like to mention that slave labor is used to mine cobalt in the Congo, which eventually makes its way into iPhone batteries. So you can claim (falsely) credit to capitalism for the iphones tech and take the L for its use of slave labor OR admit that it has nothing to do with capitalism ? Did you have a miniature stroke while writing that sentence?
honestly comrade that's the playbook of a few people i've talked to recently
Jack Morris
Remember: it works because it's upbeat, the channel presents itself as unbiased, and it's deliberately introductory.
Our equivalent of that, where StalinKawaii makes a dry "debunking western propaganda of the cold war" video with a lot of forced use of Marxist lingo that comes off as cultish to normal people, would have 2000 views. And if people trying to learn about the Cold War stumbled upon it, they'll roll right past it.