Yes… I have no problem assuming that you are average. Thus far you responded exactly how I expect your ilk to respond. You plug your ears to truths you don’t like so you don’t have to think about how your consumption habits can and should change.

If you valued my opinion of you, then I would have a higher opinion of you. I don’t expect that of you though, which is part of why you’re average.

If the company is penalized for being at fault, then they will have reasons to try better in the future.

I don’t even give a flying fuck about how autopilot compares to the average driver. Tesla has the resources to make its technology better, so we as customers should all hold them to the highest possible standard. Anything less just outs you as a useful idiot; you’re willing to accept less so someone richer than you can have more.

Your post reeks of ignorance.

I don’t think you have the capability to understand what’s going on.

It’s all about giving something for useful idiots to latch on to.

These people know most of us can’t think for ourselves, so they take full advantage of it.

This isn’t really something you can be ‘too cautious’ about.

Hopefully we can at least agree that as of right now, they’re not being cautious enough.

We need more people like him in the world.

The bullshit artists have had free reign over useful idiots for too long.

People are angry about this?

I didn’t even know he represented kindness.

He also puts into perspective how easily manipulated we all are.

We still give the most amount of power to the least trustworthy people. It’s disgusting.

I wish, but no.

For one, they would blame religion.

Barring that, they would find any other differences among us to blame.

Barring that, rich people will use their power and influence to make sure we find some way to blame each other instead of them.

The main reason why we refuse to blame rich people for our problems is because most of us want to be the rich people causing the problems. Until we can get that idea out of most of our heads, we shouldn’t expect these problems to be solved.

I don’t have much hope, personally.

I’m not going to assume that you are exceptional when you haven’t given me any reason to. Thus far, everything you’ve said is typical of people defending consumerism without any regard to magnitude.

Trying to argue that ‘there’s no ethical consumption’ (which I assume you believe) is a tactic you people use to avoid admitting how you’re part of the problem or that you can take steps to solve it. If I were to go live out in the woods, then you can point at me and say “See!? Either we spend as much money and consume as much as we can or live in the woods like a crazy person! There’s no in between!”

It’s not a purity test. You’re looking for any reason to make it seem like the person ordering doordash everyday is contributing to the problem at the same level as the person cooking their own meals every day. That’s not true and you’re going to get upset at me for pointing this out because it causes your cognitive dissonance to flare up.

No, but I contribute to it at a level that we all can participate in so I’m not part of the problem.

If you’re implying that I have to go live off in the woods or something to criticize consumerism, then you’re just looking for excuses to not consume less. You’ve been conditioned to believe it’s “all or nothing,” so any mitigation of your contribution doesn’t matter.

Really? Can you share sources of these projections?

Edit: Downvotes, but no sources. Tribalism strikes again!

I guess you don’t know what consumerism means, or you’re not willing to admit its drawbacks because you’re a part of it.

The average person has difficulty admitting when they are incorrect.

Yes, Reagen is considerably more responsible for the current economic landscape than orange man. Consumer culture is an even bigger contributor to the disparity in wealth than any politician.

But tribalism is strong on both sides, while both sides want to believe they’re above it.

It really puts into perspective how ‘intelligent’ the average person is these days.

The disparity in wealth wasn’t any better under Biden.

I blame consumerism.

What lemmy instances allow freedom of speech?

Except the for all the other tech-minded people here…

It’s more than that.

The average person is legitimately afraid of knowledge.