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Apple is a corporation with a market cap that rivals the GDP of France and a net income that rivals the GDP of Qatar. That much capital consolidated within a singular private entity doesn’t just make them any other company. Their profit seeking is wildly, wildly different than a vast majority of any other company today.

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Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Get tori head out of your ass. ALL companies will never do anything for any other reason besides profit. The size of said company doesn’t matter. A small company will fuck over its customers just as quickly if you let them.

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- franklin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is just the both sides of the same argument with different dressing.
  
  It’s as false here as it is there. So you’re going to tell me someone like fairphone is as unethical as Apple or Samsung?
  
  Yes of course they work with two completely different yields but that’s really the point The only way you can get to that yield is to be unethical so choose smaller brands choose ones that make decisions you agree with and help them grow.
  
  There is no completely ethical capitalism but there definitely are choices that get us from worst to better.
  
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  - June@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    So you’re going to tell me a company like fairphone is as unethical as Apple or Samsung?
    
    Absolutely. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism and even fair phone is profit driven. Even NPOs are profit driven. No one works for a loss in western society. No one. So literally every company will do everything it does for the sake of profitability. Even fairphone.
    
    You have to realize that fairphone’s whole model is a marketing gimmick. Does it happen to align with some good values? Sure, but it’s still a gimmick to separate you from your money at the end of the day.
    
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    franklin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is just false. Fairphone had audits that prove it’s an improvement in both sustainability and worker conditions.
    
    Of course consumerism always negatively impacts the environment but to make it all equivalent is to forsake all nuance. It’s not at all to the same magnitude.
    
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- mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The size, profits, and overall global reach of a company heavily impacts how that company further impacts the world. Do you honestly think that, I don’t know, American Girl dolls have had the same negative impact on the world as the East India Company?
  
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