Resources run out, it's time to make a choice: iPhone or Tesla?
Yes, such an unusual choice at first glance has to be made by all of us, and we will have to vote with a wallet. In fact, this choice was laid down by the capitalist system itself, which requires constant expansion and growth of sales. Generations of smartphones change every year, changing only the design in essence. Aggressive advertising forces them to buy them at an inflated price, building a semblance of a cult from their customers.
The same trend is observed in the auto industry. Back in the eighties and nineties, auto giants in the competition strived to make the most reliable and durable car. Motorists know that the engines of the "Germans" and "Japanese" of those years are not without reason called "millionaires." Many twenty-year-old foreign cars jump on Russian roads more vigorously than modern ones. But precisely because of this, automakers-capitalists were consciously forced to “drop” the quality of their products. Knowledgeable people say that now the car is designed for about 7 years of normal use, this is at best. Why do auto giants make cars that customers will drive for 20-30 years, if you can reduce their service life and force them to take new ones?
All this would have made sense, but the capitalist system ran into one insoluble problem - the limited resources of the planet. To create smartphones and electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are needed, for the production of which, in turn, a metal such as cobalt is needed. For one Apple smartphone you need 8 grams of this metal, for one electric car - a thousand times more. Companies need tens, hundreds of thousands of tons of rare metal, Apple is already forecasting a deficiency of cobalt and is switching to direct supplies with mining companies. The rapid growth in the production of Tesla electric vehicles and competitors chasing it will push high-tech American corporations into a resource war.
Apple or Tesla is a very real choice that consumers will soon have to make.
The same trend is observed in the auto industry. Back in the eighties and nineties, auto giants in the competition strived to make the most reliable and durable car. Motorists know that the engines of the "Germans" and "Japanese" of those years are not without reason called "millionaires." Many twenty-year-old foreign cars jump on Russian roads more vigorously than modern ones. But precisely because of this, automakers-capitalists were consciously forced to “drop” the quality of their products. Knowledgeable people say that now the car is designed for about 7 years of normal use, this is at best. Why do auto giants make cars that customers will drive for 20-30 years, if you can reduce their service life and force them to take new ones?
All this would have made sense, but the capitalist system ran into one insoluble problem - the limited resources of the planet. To create smartphones and electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are needed, for the production of which, in turn, a metal such as cobalt is needed. For one Apple smartphone you need 8 grams of this metal, for one electric car - a thousand times more. Companies need tens, hundreds of thousands of tons of rare metal, Apple is already forecasting a deficiency of cobalt and is switching to direct supplies with mining companies. The rapid growth in the production of Tesla electric vehicles and competitors chasing it will push high-tech American corporations into a resource war.
Apple or Tesla is a very real choice that consumers will soon have to make.
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