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NegativeInf ,

I swear these companies are a secret operation to hurt both the economy of the United States and the health of the nation.

credo ,

I have a canon printer, and canon DRM’d the maintenance cartridge so you have to keep buying new ones, even if they aren’t close to full. First and only purchase on ali was a device to fix that little issue.

Some good / some bad. Mostly, I would argue, due to the greed of corporations.

WhatAmLemmy ,

The problem is that greed & sociopathy are, fundamentally, rewarded by every single system that humans have ever devised, and the single and only safeguard is a properly educated and logical (sane) citizenry who understand that, a community is interdependent, Rome wasn’t built in a day, civilization is a product of the collective and, are willing to take action to defend that collective.

The rub is that the wealthy/powerful will always try to attain more power/wealth, so unregulated, centralized, capitalism/socialism is guaranteed to result in the most immoral, unethical, sociopathic, criminals being the most successful. All they have to do is succeed once, while we have to defend for infinity.

catloaf ,

Nah, it’s just disregard for people’s health. Nobody cares if someone on the other side of the ocean gets a little lead poisoning six months from now, because by then they’ll have the money and be long gone.

clearedtoland ,

I was going to binge purchase off Temu at one point - inexpensive junk stuff to tickle my fancy. But in good conscience, I just couldn’t. It’s wasted money on stuff I don’t trust made by exploited workers or knocked off patents that ends up in a landfill.

Would I confidently let my kids play with the toys and tchotchkes? I don’t even buy stuff for them from Amazon cause of all the counterfeit and toxic crap. I know some consumers have to be extra price conscious. It sucks that they’re relegated to crap quality products that are less durable and essentially more disposable (not to say that better quality junk isn’t disposable junk in modern times).

aniki ,

Amazon at this point is just Aliexpress with better shipping. I seriously have made it a point to just find what I want on amazon then find it for 1/2 price on aliexpress.

KevonLooney ,

knocked off patents

This is the least problematic part of your complaint. There’s a lot of good quality knock-offs in Asia, sometimes from the exact same factory as the originals. T-shirts should not be $500, no matter what quality they are. Baseball caps should be $20 maximum. They cost like $5 to make a good one that sells for $500.

SkaveRat ,

it’s just being cheap. People want cheap stuff, they produce cheap stuff. Using toxic processes or fewer checks makes things cheap

someguy3 ,

Nah private companies just don’t give two shits about anything but profit.

random_character_a ,
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Every time I see Temu ads, hair in back of my neck stand up and my tin foil hat starts to itch.

cyborganism ,

You should probably not buy your tinfoil from Shein then…

someguy3 ,

Tell me more how the free market will solve everything.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
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I hate these companies, they are the end game of hyper-consumerist Capitalism. Cheap junk, made largely with slave labor, with extremely toxic chemicals that destroy our environment, most of which gets dumped after a few uses in landfills to slowly rot and leak micro plastics into everything.

DO NOT BUY FROM THEM!!!

Influencers on TikTok doing $200 haul videos with huge boxes of this swill for their addicted viewers, it’s horrific.

sunzu2 ,

At some point, peasants will need to own their idiotic consumption patterns.

We clearly can't rely on the state to regulate or business to sell good shit. Direct action and voting with your money is the only choice left.

Yet most people larp the plastic trash... And when you ask them why, they act indignant about it.

🤡 society we deserve

riodoro1 ,

surprised pikachu face

citrusface ,

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KijinSeija ,

We’ve learned absolutely nothing from Wish.

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