I think you’re forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professional environments are to adopt it.

Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.

Don’t let perfect get in the way of good!

Not totalitarian you say?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

My experience in Azerbaijan also included tales of when they were children passing curds to starving prisoners through chain fences in Kazakh gulags. The Soviet Union did more harm than good to the leftist movement and is used as the scary example every single time someone begins to think twice about the capitalist system they live under. Socialism is forever tainted by the USSR and severely struggles to remove that image. Fuck the USSR.

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Monetise or propagandise?

Both. It’s probably both.

Less safe? What features do you need that, say, a 2015 model can’t have?

An ICE that is still on the go is more environmentally friendly than manufacturing an EV from new… A new EV versus a new ICE, yeah fair enough. But replacing a perfectly functional ICE vehicle with a new EV for environmental reasons is just marketing, consumerism, and trend following.

To stop bullshit spying of every part of a vehicle, to stop bullshit waste of perfectly functional vehicles, buy used.

Obviously, fuck cars, use public transport if you can, but that’s unfeasible for most, so buy used!

Especially if you can get your hands on something like a 1.0l with a giant turbo strapped to the side. They’re pretty common in Europe, I don’t know about America.

Then don’t buy anything.

If you want to stop shit behaviour you need to provide consequences.

Buy a used car instead, there’s plenty of them.

When the new car market falls apart these manufacturers will change their ways.

But because people are unwilling to part with even the tiniest bit of convenience, prestige, whatever the fuck it is, I wish I knew, then the bad behaviour is encouraged and then you’re left in a situation where the market sees there’s no consequences for adding this shit to their products and they all do it.

Then everybody suffers.