| TheShape31 said:
Buying used creates demand for others to create demand? I'm not buying it (pun intended). If a person already owns an old PS3, but wants to upgrade, that decision has nothing to do with whether or not someone will buy the old hardware from them. Those that are going to upgrade are going to upgrade regardless. And the leftover old console simply gets passed along in the process, second-hand. As far as prices going up in a non-sweatshop environment... companies like Apple will spin a bunch of bullshit saying that the prices will go up by "x" hundred dollars. But the fact of the matter is that if the people at the top of the company made the decision to only make a million a year, as opposed to hundreds of millions a year, then there would be no price hike for consumers. That sickening amount of excess wealth would get passed onto you and I, and more importantly the workers that put those electronics together. It's all about greed. A sweatshop-free world is completely possible, and the world would be a better place for it. |
I fully agree with the second part of your post. How to get there I don't know.
Not with the first however. For example I buy many games day 1 knowing I can sell them on for at least half of their value since there is a market for it, allowing me to buy more games at launch then I could afford otherwise. It works the same with consoles, buy a WiiU funded with the sale of a used console.
You buy something, you create demand, it doesn't matter whether it's new or used. Except when you buy from a thrift store or other places that sell donated or abandoned items. (You still create demand for such places, just not directly for the products sold there)
