r/Millennials • u/A-Helpful-Flamingo Elder Millennial • 12d ago

Meme Nice to have common ground

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u/The_BarroomHero 12d ago

Hey dumbass, buy better things. Be more suspicious when selecting an item for purchase. Be more critical in general. You can still buy a cool & reliable car for less than $10k that doesn't require any online connection. You can still buy a $500 TV that's big and looks good and doesn't have ads. You can still buy a fridge that keeps your shit cold for like $500 and doesn't have an internet connection.

You trusted big tech and found out. Learn from it. There's still time to settle in with a few well curated items you're ready to keep in your life for the next decade or so while, ahem, things work themselves out.

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u/Not-An-FBI 12d ago

You aren't wrong. There are like 50 different companies selling Gameboy replicas with way nicer screens to boot.

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u/The_BarroomHero 12d ago

Thanks. This is not to say, of course, that all of these issues aren't a problem. But it won't be fixed until the material conditions that make it this way naturally play out.

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u/Not-An-FBI 12d ago

I tried figuring out which one was best and only ended up with a reddit post where everyone comment had a different device suggested. The problem we have now is people being advertised and sold on crap rather than there just being a couple options with obvious differences.