Thread by @We3forDemocracy

Insatiable greed by western multinationals has helped China in its rise to economic superpower status.

Apple is a fine example - a $trillion company, that continually wants to squeeze its customers through outrageously expensive upgrades nytimes.com/2019/01/04/tec…

Apple’s software upgrades have, from it’s very beginning (whether as a witting/unwitting strategy by Apple) regularly made existing Apple apps defunct, resulting in loss of function or being forced into new apps

i.e. There are substantial 👉🏼add on costs👈🏼 of using Apple products

Apple’s status as luxury item “must have” along w other multinationals are likely to suffer a fall in profit - as globalist profiteers (including themselves) choose robots over people

Anarcho-capitalist globalism is fundamentally a form destructive, (ultimately self) cannibalism

While (some) govts pat themselves on the back (and enrich grocery stores selling expensive bags) for reducing use of plastic bags ...
👉🏼 When is something going to be done about profiteers creating products designed to quickly break or become defunct, and not affordably fixable?

Our current throw away culture (of which plastic is today’s scapegoat) is a product of entrenched globalist consumerism

Its too expensive to fix things (and we’ve lost the expertise to do so, also thanks to rampant globalist neoliberalism that’s only interested in buy, buy, buy)