Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee beans and make my own coffee" are completely missing the fucking point.
Don't tell yourself your consumption is moral. All of us make unethical choices every day because there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Accept your shame and guilt and let it drive you to do better.
how do we know it's not used? I'm just saying we're putting a lot into this image. Not done a massive deep dive but off the top of my head Apple isn't really that much worse than Samsung, Sony, NVIDIA, ASUS... Maybe there's a few percentage points in it - but by any metric: revenue, employee corps, emissions, corruption, e-waste, personal politics or private lives of key figures... are they vastly different?
Ehhhhh. I think you're vastly over estimating how good people are at tech. Even young people. I reflect on trying to teach my grandmother how to text. Probably around 2004? She could use a VHS and DVD player, land line phone with caller ID, a microwave, set the time on the oven - but pressing keys on a phone to spell was beyond her and she got really frustrated. I also reflect on how someone I know in their early 30s was really annoyed by some old printer software they had from a printer they don't own any more, and I said "why don't you just uninstall it" and they didn't know how.
The average user on lemmy can probably write a Hello world in some language, or at least create Hello worldHello world ... but I don't know if the average person on the street can.
The average person on the street probably can't install windows from scratch let alone dual boot Linux, let alone from a Mac OS.
I dont mean that to be snooty, I mean it to highlight you are taking a massive leap of faith in how good at computers most people are.
Sure you're right. But, I'm still going to take my chances and say that she probably spent her own money lol