There is no logical reason why a smart phone should cost $5000
Except people keep buying phones with planned obsolescence, and taxing phones like $4000 each seems like a good solution, as I said. People might finance them in real life instead of saving up for them if we did this, but it should really make a dent in the problem either way.
You’re getting down voted because the numbers you are throwing out are completely disconnected from reality.
That’s incorrect. They’re just nice round example numbers for illustrative purposes, but not disconnected from reality at all.
Manufacturing costs for a smartphone are like $500 tops.
You have manufacturing costs confused with costs for the manufacturer. When I subsidize the manufacturer every time I pay rent, those are not the same number.
The actual people assembling them make something along the lines of $3-4 an hour, and that’s being generous.
And they probably live in systems like the system I live in here in the US, where that income can’t really be owned by the worker, it’s owned by the banking system or the “state” and the worker has some say in how a percentage of it is spent (what food they want to eat, what kind of phone they want, etc)
Except people keep buying phones with planned obsolescence, and taxing phones like $4000 each seems like a good solution, as I said. People might finance them in real life instead of saving up for them if we did this, but it should really make a dent in the problem either way.
That’s incorrect. They’re just nice round example numbers for illustrative purposes, but not disconnected from reality at all.
You have manufacturing costs confused with costs for the manufacturer. When I subsidize the manufacturer every time I pay rent, those are not the same number.
And they probably live in systems like the system I live in here in the US, where that income can’t really be owned by the worker, it’s owned by the banking system or the “state” and the worker has some say in how a percentage of it is spent (what food they want to eat, what kind of phone they want, etc)
Hence why I mentioned that as long as you don’t let me have an income, all prices are too high for me, and this is all a moot point
The workers deserve a better wage than $3-4, and that’s a reason the phone should probably be more expensive, not less