Is it worth having rare earth minerals mined by literal slaves in Africa and China?
Is it worth the energy associated with transporting the resources, processing them, assembling the device and delivering it to you?
All for the convenience of not pulling out your phone while you are tying your shoes?
I do not understand this uncritical consumption. $30 may be 'a steal', but think about whom you are stealing from.
Removing a single consumer electronic device from your life isn't going to impact those global markets - they're problems best tackled at a different scale.
I'm curious. Which way?
This is why I am so pessimistic about humanity. It's an outrageous opinion to sacrifice even a bit of convenience for not using resources.
I see the angry downvotes pouring in on my previous post because (unsurprisingly) people get angry at having their consumerist lifestyle criticised.
Hardware teardown of an early generation echo. Worst, all of this is electronic waste in a few years.
We all do this and just by design, smartphones and laptops are not made to last. We accumulate such a staggering about of waste considering the energy/resources used to produce this.
The larger problem is that technology enables us to consume more, so I don't see how technology can ever solve the problem unless a serious shift in perception happens.
E.g. [https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-what-we-die-for-child-... | This Is What We Die For: Child Slaves Made Your Phone Battery]