Josh128 wrote:This is definitely the wrong place for a discussion like this. If the Pro does really well it might sell several hundred units in its first year or so of production. The idea that producing it anywhere outside of China will have any kind of effect at all on the labor environment or the governments oppressive stance on workers Hong Kong, the Uighurs, etc., is extremely naive.
To send any kind of message you would need to target a product with orders of magnitude more sales than the OSSC Pro could ever dream of. Think iPhones. Its one of the reasons I dont buy Apple products. People leaping to their deaths from the top of Foxconn production facilities over slave labor and wages building fucking cell phones that hundreds of millions of sheople eagerly pay $1200 every couple of years for.
Want to make a difference? Target Apple, not Marqs.
BS. You are responsible for smaller things as well. This is not a "campaign", you have to start with the small things, it all adds up. If many small projects boycot production in China, it definitely can send a message as well.
Your thinking is nothing more than a way to weasel out of responsibility. Compare climate change. A government might use your thinking as an excuse to not reduce greenhouse gas emission as much as would (otherwise) be possible, it makes cute doggy eyes and goes:
oh but the other countries emit sooo much more greenhouse gas than us, our contribution would change so little, so our effort would not be worth it. It's always the others that have to make a move, not yourself, isn't it. Like a stubborn small kid. Just like thinking unnecessarily keeping the lights on doesn't matter. It's egoistic. (the other half of the stunt, btw, which is used for "bad" things, goes like:
oh but if we don't do it, somebody else will do it anyway!) And that thought is viral, gets widely replicated. When your job might actually be to shatter that wall, setting a good example, creating the possibility that
it may replicate.
Your argument is a comfortable argument, and an ignorant argument.