Apple and Jobs damn well know their marketing exploits societal pressures and individual shortcomings that also results in their devices being sold to people th

Apple and Jobs damn well know their marketing exploits societal pressures and individual shortcomings that also results in their devices being sold to people that can't afford them and suffer as a result of buying them. Many philosophies allow you to defend such behavior, by pointing out the net advantage the devices have for all people that buy them combined. Buddhism doesn't, because it expects you to act in non-harmful ways. In these days of mass communication, that basically means from abstaining from using mass-communication devices, because you can know, within reasonable doubt, that many kinds of communication will cause some harm. It's only within personal interaction with a small number of people that you can honestly attempt not to cause any harm.