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A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades
(www.straitstimes.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's a convenient abstract entity that can be used as a general boogeyman and blamed for all things.
For sure, some things are indeed a direct consequence of capitalism, but lots of other problems come from the simple existence of things having costs, scarcity existing, and humans not being completely selfless. No amount of economic re-arrangement is going to get you away from those things, but it's nice to imagine so.