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> I don’t dislike fashion because I’m a humble bragging genius. I dislike it because I think it’s bad for the world.

We could play that game for days, about most industries that feature prominently on HN. This looks like just the sort of narrow focus the original poster was talking about. Why are fashion products worse than new smartphones coming out every year? Because we personally like gadgets more? And if we were talking about a used tech toy marketplace, comments about how new manufacturing was bad would be similarly out of left field, since here's an example of reuse.

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According to my reading, HN is full of complaints about new phones (and everything else, e.g. washing machines) being built with “planned obsolescence” as a goal, and praise for Apple for being by far the best in supporting old devices (but of course they could still improve!)

FWIW the iPhone 5s from Fall 2013 is still receiving regular security updates.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212341

Planned obsolescence goes beyond whether phone software gets updated or not. It covers changing designs so that you can tell one generation from another, so that there is social pressure to upgrade despite the phone working fine.

This article was about fashion, so it seems relevant. Other discussions about companies harmful practices often do sound off in the threads about those companies or fields.

I dont think anyone said one was worse than the other until you did - we can actually be against more than one thing at a time and maintain various levels of concerns across more than one thing at a time without constantly bringing up a list of all the bad things in the universe.

> We could play that game for days, about most industries that feature prominently on HN.

Do you have a moment to discuss my new crypto coin? It is specifically good at taking dinosaurs and making them money launder for drug dealers, murderers, and slavers.

All human activity except agriculture and medicine is a waste of time of you want to be strict about it

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