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  • I will say, part of that ignorance, apathy, and laziness is an intentional part of our existing society. You can’t spend the time to research every single product you ever buy, because many are stuck working several job, basically everyone is juggling their work, family, and social life.

    A couple months back, I tried putting some effort into finding a printer that had all of the qualifications I wanted.

    • usb printing, no network needed

    • laser

    • color

    • not a brand that will fuck you over (looking at you HP)

    • within a reasonable budget of $300-$400

    And such a product just doesn’t exist. Brother comes close, but the market straight up isn’t producing good things. So at the end of the day all I can do is either get shafted at the local print store, or suck it up and get an inferior product.

    But going back to the OP, it’s so much worse with cars because we have a car-centric society. You NEED a car in this place to have a normal life. Our cities and transportation have been intentionally designed to fuck over everyone not in a car.

    So there is inelastic demand. The manufacturers can do whatever the fuck they want and get away with it.








  • Doable but you need teachers to open source their lessons and vet them.

    If an OS alternative was trying to completely replace duolingo, it would need far more than that. Duolingo has had extensive work put into listening and speaking lessons. Almost all lessons have a listening componentwhich is a ton of content to make up for. They have significantly better voice recognition than my phone. The amount of effort to get something like that working for a language, let alone dozens of languages is a high bar.

    Take a look at any of the job postings that duolingo has, they’re only looking for Google employee level of skill for a reason (aside from how fucked the job market is).

    It’s not impossible for duolingo to be replaced with an open source version, but it’s a giant undertaking.