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Which goes to show that the option is there and people don't take it because they simnply don't want it so this regulation is the EU being the EU.
by veave 3y ago
Which goes to show that the option is there and people don't take it because they simnply don't want it so this regulation is the EU being the EU.
- seba_dos1 3y agoThe option is there indeed, although I'm not sure if the general population would be happy with e.g. an Openmoko phone back when I already was :P
- onli 3y agoDisagree. First, the devices with removable batteries are exceedingly rare right now. They also often enough are niche products. Second, it is not reasonable to expect every consumer to always think about what is right, and not instead to follow what marketing tells him to buy. This is exactly what regulations are good for and historically have solved.
- veave 3y agoInteresting argument against democracy that you have in there - we should go back to monarchy. After all, it is not reasonable to expect every citizen to think about what is right, since instead they follow propaganda.
- onli 3y agoThe danger of manipulation through propaganda is indeed an argument used in political discourse, though in reasonable discussions when talking about direct and indirect democracy. The layers of parliamentary systems are partly a means of protection against manipulations. If you want to read an interesting and nice to read book that partly talks about this, then I'd recommend Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy. Though a consumer decision is not the same as a political vote, at least the latter is not supposed to be similarly thoughtless, so there is no need to interpret my comment that broadly.
- Levitz 3y agoWhen a chosen official makes a law that the citizens have to abide by, that's democracy and not its opposite.
- scarface_74 3y agoYes people are too stupid to make their own choices. The EU should just start coming out with “5 Year Plans”. What could possibly go wrong? The EU’s regulations must be why there is a thriving tech sector in Europe…
- f1shy 3y agoThere is good development in the UK! Oh… they are not EU … The ones that downvoted this comment will be surprised in 10 years…
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoEuropes tech sector is thriving, but it’s all boring technology that actually solves real problems that nobody cares about like SAP and shit so the HN crowd don’t think it exists :)
- scarface_74 3y ago“Thriving” a bunch of SaaS companies? If you add up the valuations of all of the tech companies in the EU, do they sum up to the value of Apple? That’s not even to mention the pay differential for tech employees.
- ReptileMan 3y agoOligopoly and cartels are adept at serving their interests and not the interests of society and customers.
- john61 3y agoRegulation is not made for the benefit of individuals, but for the benefit of society as a whole. In this case, for the environment or the planet. I doubt that people don't want a planet to live.
- nonethewiser 3y agoSociety as a whole is just a bunch of individuals. If its bad for individuals its bad for society.
- john61 3y agoThe whole is more than the sum of its parts.