| ▲ | happytoexplain a day ago |
| Is there a reason you think that might not count? Obviously the point of not buying X is to avoid supporting X for long-term moral and practical reasons, despite the product's convenience/cheapness/quality/whatever. |
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| ▲ | OGEnthusiast a day ago | parent [-] |
| It was a genuine question, since I imagine it would be difficult to be a tech enthusiast while having your entire personal supply chain be free of any US-based company. Regardless, kudos to people who try. |
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| ▲ | lucianbr a day ago | parent | next [-] | | It does not have to be all or nothing. You can probably aim to reduce the degree of "US-made-ness" of your tech gadgets. I don't know how effective that is, but it's an option that's available. | |
| ▲ | em-bee a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | the question is who makes the profit. for apple products most of the profit goes to the US. for others, eg. lenovo most of the profits go to hong kong/china. maybe you can avoid US components with ARM based computers, or loongson, the chinese CPU. |
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