They don’t… include chargers… with new phones anymore??????????? Remember literally earlier today when I said we’re now in the Fuck You phase of end-stage capitalism? WELP

One more and then I’ll stop— These corporations don’t give a good goddamn about the environment. They care about their bottom line. End of.

I didn’t study economics but I know capitalism ain’t it, chief Never was, never will be I’m sorry that I couldn’t fit a dissertation about the infinite pitfalls of capitalism into one tweet but will y’all please kindly remove yourselves off of my dick

@pot8um They could just…make it optional. Like a separate package. So, if applicable, you could say “Thanks, but I have enough already”

@pot8um And there is plastic in the packaging when you need to buy a charger separately so it's the opposite of helpful in that respect anyways...

@pot8um I have 3 children, 2 of them has usb-c on their phones and 1 lightning. Never have I bought new usb-c but lightinings twice a year.

@pot8um It’s not a “reduction of plastic” if I’m going to have to buy a new charger anyway. My old charger literally didn’t work with my new phone 🙃

@pot8um people get new phones before their previous hardware expires which could be seen as an argument against including a charger but also software designers are very adamant on planned obsolescence which is just fucking..... why???? the hardware works perfectly fine but its unusable

@pot8um The Apple iPhone cables are the worst on the market… even the crappy Poundland/Dollar store cables last longer… and yet no one seems to mention this… it’s only been shite for about 15 years… can’t expect them to have addressed it by now…

@pot8um my grandmother lamented there used to be places to fix small appliances like toasters & percolator coffee pots; we still have the coffee pot, which she got as a wedding gift in 1963, still works better than the keurig we replaced twice. it's def deliberately shitty manufacturing

@pot8um If they're concerned about that, give me an option to reject it as I'm checking out. "Click this box if you do not need a new Samsung Charging Kit."

@pot8um If they worked longer then why would they need to include one with every phone? You're contradicting yourself

@pot8um I’ve had my iPhone charger 6 years, works fine

@pot8um “Capitalism breeds innovation” Effects of Capitalism: We make products worse just to make it more money.

@pot8um The actual charger can be carried over from phone to phone. I guarantee you’ve got about four or five in your house right now. You NEED the cable but the charger, you already have

@pot8um Or - they change the freaking charging port so that your old ones are incompatible

@pot8um Worst thing : most of the old charger aren't compatible with new fast charge standard. So you inevitably need to buy a new one at some point. They don't do that to save the planet, they do that because it costs them less money to incline a charger in the box

@pot8um Not to mention the carbon emissions of sending two separate packages. If u order a phone, u now need to order a cable too lol, usually after the fact. Which will require more packaging, time, transit etc. When they could just include it in the fucking original box

@pot8um And like... people will still have to BUY chargers so it doesn't save anything?