Godammn vacuum cleaner broke. Took it apart, its just a part of the brush roller that is broken. Should be an easy fix. But they don’t sell spare parts for my vacuum. They never have, they just want you to buy a new one. So one little easily replaced plastic bit makes the whole thing into non-functional mostly plastic waste. The vacuum is even clearly designed to be easily repaired, it’s one of the most intelligently laid out appliances I’ve ever seen.
But it’s not profitable to sell spare parts, so I have to send this thing to a landfill if I can’t figure out some ghetto fix. This intentional wastefulness is one of the things that pisses me off about capitalism nearly every day.
Wait…when you buy a phone it comes locked? Here that only happens for free/cheap phones on plans. You buy the phone pre-paid you have no issue
Unlocked phones cost astronomical prices in the us.
This is partially a money grab and partially due to laws that restrict burner phones.
What, so even once you’ve paid it off, it’s still locked to that carrier?
Yep. It’s not actually cheaper to get a locked phone, the carriers just lie to your face about how much they will charge you. They make the earlier payments what they told you they would be, and the later ones a lot more expensive. That way, it will be too late to return the phone because you realize you got scammed. 100% of carrier phone stores have fraud as a core part of how they operate. It’s how they make money. I don’t understand how more people aren’t pissed about this and demand legislation to end this practice. I mean, I’d rather just abolish capitalism, but making this scam easier to prosecute people for carrying out and actually enforcing the law is such an inoffensive liberal way of fixing this problem that you would think someone would do it.
