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You can't buy used on Amazon. I said used
The largest majority of people also can't be bothered to do a single shred of research before buying something. How is that anyone else's problem but theirs?
The best consumer protection comes from the consumer. Do a bit of research before you buy something.
If you can't be bothered to take a few extra minutes to do that, then quite frankly, you deserve to be fucked by scammers.
and this is exactly how being fucked by scammers will become normal
stop with your fucking elitism and start thinking what to do for those whos work/hobby is not in IT, because that's 99.999% of people.
It's not elitism to say "If you want something done right, do it yourself."
Elitism?
Dude. I am an almost 50 year old, former truck driver with no formal education on any of this shit, and yet, I managed to figure it out.
If you can't, then that's most assuredly a YOU problem.
SURELY you're smarter than a truck driver?
"I, a person of a low status, figured it out. Therefore I am better, and you're stupid and lower than me if you can't do the same thing"
That's literally elitism, my dude. You're acting as if figuring out a specialty task somehow puts you on a higher pedestal than others who don't happen to have that same skillset.
Like, you did a thing, good for you, but now you're being an absolute assclown about it and pulling up the ladder instead of being even remotely helpful.
It's not about me, but about all the people around me
So punish those of us who do know how to make the cheap stuff work in a way we want, by removing the cheap stuff from the market, because other idiots don't?
Yeah, solid idea.
where did I recommend that?
It is a natural consequence of tighter regulations.
to me that sounds like arguing that banning behavioral advertising would result in all monetarily free social platforms stopping to exist
chinese tech was cheap even before datamining and IoT was a thing. "banning" datamining wouldn't make chinese tech expensive