But they're not pollution. Because you can afford the brand name that costs 10x the knock off, doesn't mean everyone can. Just a few days ago I bought a solder

But they're not pollution. Because you can afford the brand name that costs 10x the knock off, doesn't mean everyone can. Just a few days ago I bought a soldering iron. If I went with Reddit's recommendations it would be at least $100 for a "not terrible one". Instead I bought a $10 one that I'm sure will work perfectly fine for what I will use it for. In this case the results that I didn't care about were the brand names.