You're ruining the economy by now buying the latest iphone
*not buying
fuck iphone, last years tech for tomarrows price. when they actually innovte insted of use old tech an a new softwear patch and lower their inflated value then i might buy.but i usually dont buy shit for trendiness like a sperg who thinks they look rich bc of a logo
>>61383292My current shit works just fine now why would I need a new one
>>61383292Phones shouldn't have to be upgraded every year.
>>61383292That's what I got from it.
>>61383349Most things don't require a yearly re purchase. If it does then you know you're just feeding mouths rather than getting a product thats necessary.
More Corporatist slop from CNBC. There video from CNBC (see below) where they talk about how more young adults in the USA are living with their parents. Somewhere during the video they bring in this random lady who says how that hurts the aggregate economy, Who the fuck cares the aggregate economy. People aren't paid enough to buy your shitty 40-year homes or even food. We the fuck would they waste their money on a smartphone that hasn't even changed in years. The solution is never pay people more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDItVG2n1bg
>>61383349It made sense back in the day. Each model would be better than the last in a noticeable way. 3 years was always the sweet spot really but with trade in deals spending 500 bucks yearly on something I use for hours daily is a good deal to me. Phones basically do everything well for the last 5 years now so you can upgrade when you need to and not miss out on any new amazing feature.
>>61383366You ever stop to think about this? Most articles about giving financial advice tell zoomers to stop buying materialistic goods and forgoe the small things like daily coffee.On the exact other side of the spectrum, on the same website, you'll see the exact same people talking about GenZ and millenials are ruining the economy because they took that advice and arent contributing to the materialistic economy.Its a lose-lose scenario that just shows they know the younger generations cant afford the same materialistic goods their parents bought while also scapegoating them as being frivilous.Consumerism didnt suddenly begin with the very first iPhone release. If zoomers en mass stopped buying anything unecessary, the entire economy implodes. If zoomers keep spending like their parents did back then, they get to be called frivilous and having a lack of economic sense.Most of the time, in situations like this, heads would start rolling like it happened in France or Russia.
>>61383378Kek on this goy!
>>61383406Blaming consumers for losing confidence is blaming the fish when fishing.
To be fair this economic model we all use hinges on infinite growth and you cannot have the markets going up infinitely if everybody just keeps all their stuff.Planned obsolence is bad but there is no alternative in a world like that with 10 year old tech being convenient and good enough for 90% of the opoulation. Just look at cars. If I drive in a car from 2015 it has literally everything and then some why would I ever need a new one. It is that way with almost everything.
>>61383406Zoomer = frivolous Zoomer = not spending enoughBoomer = ruined everything All just narrative slop from the Elite class to divide and conquer the tired masses. The real problem is the Debt based Fiat Monetary System that allows for the Elite to loot from the People silently through:1) Funding pork belly projects2) War3) Liquidity injections We need Sound Money. It stops most of the above. Why because allow for a verifiable, accurate ledger of people’s contribution to the economy.Money is supposed to be a verifiable, accurate ledger of people’s contribution to the economy, because all economic activity is simply energy transformed. The currency of the universe is energy. It takes energy to mine, refine, process, and coin any element; but most elements don’t meet the necessary criteria (e.g., tarnish, rust, not solid), which is why gold was chosen. The ledger for gold is the physical universe itself. It can’t be cheated because gold cannot be manufactured—except with particle accelerators, which didn’t exist for most of human history and are still extremely energy-inefficient today. Bitcoin is considered “money” by some for this same reason: it’s incredibly difficult to cheat the ledger. The network’s nodes expend massive amounts of energy solving random mathematical problems to maintain the ledger. To overpower the Bitcoin ledger, you’d need the equivalent of 16 to 38 average-sized nuclear power plants. That makes it impossible for a single actor—and maybe even most sovereigns—to corrupt it. Bitcoin’s value comes from this uncheatable ledger: a verifiable, accurate record of ownership that cannot be inflated away. Of course, for the ledger to remain incorruptible, Bitcoin requires a large network of people who believe in it—just as gold requires a large number of people who accept the physical effort embedded in its past production.TLDR: We need Sound Money. It can be Gold or Bitcoin or some other ledger.
>>61383432You can have infinite growth (from our perspective). We are not even a Kardashev Type 1 Civilization. There is plenty of growth left if the parasitic rentier class of Elite (e.g., PE firms whose only value add is to buy companies with leverage and sell them parts) stopped sucking up all the value created from the producer class.We find 1-2% efficient gains every year through R&D. That is the real rate of growth in a mature economy. Everything else is just the by product of M2 increasing.
>>61383472If you look at the M2 supply from 1940 to 2025, it took roughly 15 years for it to double. Once you get past 1985, it starts to double every 10 years. Once you go from 2010 to 2025, the supply has tripled.20 trillion dollars were added in 15 years alone. It simply has never been a consumer spending issue.
>>61383292>it may seem like a smart money moveyea…I wasn’t thinking about other people when I didn’t replace my working object
>>61383529I wait in anticipation for the day that private equity C-suite executives are violently murdered. The French Revolution had a measure of restraint in its decision to use the guillotine, but I don't think the rage will be contained this time around.
Don't you goys get it?! The phone has a higher number, bigger number = better why aren't you buying???
The yearly improvements are so miniscule that it doesnt make any sense to replace your phone until it stops working.The only people who keep getting the latest model every year are people who are status obsessed
im ruining a lot of things bros
>>61383292Good, I'm never buying. I hope unemployment goes to 50% and pensions go to zero. The establishment could not deal with weaponized economics and have to rely on weak willed poors. Fortunately even those are priced out. Everything should burn.
>>61383330Truth. I'll probably wait for the iPhone Fold (gen 2) before upgrading from my 14 Pro Max.
>>61383292>You need to buy buy buy>But we won't give you more money>We're raising the cost of living btw>Why aren't you buying?>Do you hate America?
>>61383292I ain't got a spare fucking grand just laying around to buy the new iphone every year. I'm going to hold onto my phone until their updates eventually fuck it past the point of usuability.
>>61383292>what phone does /biz/ mainly use? >date purchased? >rank it out of 5 how pleased you are with itpixel 8. 2024 jan. 4/5. battery isn't great but it's still good, gets me through the day. no complaints. camera is great. i'll probably do a round trip for my next phone after i notice my pixel 8's performance dips to a certain point and then mainly use an iphone and then mainly use a samsung and finally a pixel and then repeat or add a new new phone if something catches my eye
i had a flip phone until 2019haven't upgraded since
>>61383349Yes, that's why apple and literally every manufacturer give you years of updates for your phone.These articles are made by kikes.
>>61383292Oh. Wait.So you are telling me they CAN'T pass the tariffs on because we don't have to buy?I was told the opposite.
>>61383378>something I use for hours dailyI am a multi millionaire with a business that 99.9% of people would call 'big'. My wife is a neurologist.My phone is a refurb from Ebay and hers is an 8 year old iphone.Do with this information what you will next time you spend $500 on a phone you retarded goy cattle.My secretary, who is always and eternally on the edge of needing money, has a iphone watch and so does her mom, and she's getting one for her daughter.Poors gonna poor.
>>61383292I have an android to keep skanks away from me.I don't want the germ ya feel me dog?
>>61385792Why do you keep hiring useless whores that insist of calling me when I'm taking a shit of my life and cannot write a fucking email?
>>61383292There hasn't been any significant change in the tech for the best part of a decade, so why should I?My phone is already fast enough, the screen is large enough, the camera is good enough. What did they think was going to be the result of drowning the labour market in cheap immigrant labour to lower wages? More iPhones being sold? Are they retarded? Young people living at home can't get those jobs anymore because Abdul/Pedro/Ngubu are doing them and sending money back home to their families.You get what you fucking deserve.
>>61383366>The solution is never pay people more.I can't believe I share a board with people this stupid
>>61386303+1 pretty sad really.there's no reason to upgrade. similar to cars they do the tasks they're designed for well already. the only thing ive noticed different about my current phone compared to my last one was a better camera. that's it. now with the AI spyware trash I'm even less likely to get a current model. and fuck the coooooonssssssoooooom mentality.
I'm upgrading to an iphone 17 from my 11 that I bought in 2019. 64gb just isn't enough.My mom got a free ipad from work and literally noone uses the thing in my house. Wtf do people do with these things?
>>61383366>video from CNBCthey always produce those "millelnials are killing x" videos they do it to farm ragebait clicks which clearly works
>>61383472What the fuck would hard money do, they would just take your money by force then. Don’t pay your gold backed currency taxes and the gangster god global computer system sends a microscopic drone to you anywhere in the world that lodges itself in your head and incapacitates you until the authorities arrive.
>>61385936People call me.I don't call anyone. Ever.30-50 a day call me.
>>61383292This makes no sense, buying the latest phone is finacially irresponsible and is what’s destroying the economy
>>61385792You’re cattle
>>61383292You can get a smartphone for 30 bucks at wally world that does pretty much everything an iphone canI'm not running fucking triple A games on my phone
>>61383292I have no reason to ever upgrade my iPhone 14 Pro. I would've bought a new iPhone Mini if Apple hadn't been retarded and discontinued it, but the 14 is my absolute limit to how big of a phone I'm willing to buy. I already compromised too much and I refuse to keep letting phones get bigger every year.
>>61386786>cattle owns his own large businessMy wife would be more accurately this given she is a highly paid medical staff. Now she gives me all her money to invest and buys steak for every meal.
>>61386771Nobody calls me except scammers.
>>61386830If you start a buisness instead of find a way to work for a different business you’re cattle.Your wife was smart enough to find a job not start a buisness
my s23 ultra works just fine ty
>>61383292Give me a 75% discount and I’ll consider it
>>61386937kekI'm literally at home right now because I can just do whatever I want.I was in at 6 am home at 8am. I'll be back to monitor the actual cattle around noon.My wife would be what you call "free range cattle" since she works 3.5 days a week and 33 days vacation for $400,000. kek
>>61386890If you have a sizeable business the scammers make it entirely necessary for a full time secretary. I had one for well over a decade because it's better to have them handle your affairs. But at this point she just rejects over half the calls and has my permission to be brutal.
>>61386937>If you start a buisness instead of find a way to work for a different business you’re cattleSounds like a very low self confidence take
>>61383292Still have my moto g power from 5 years ago
>>61387154Or you can simply not have a phone, that easy.
>>61383292why are we shilling socialism now
>>61387238Having a secretary is the key part of being an actual business man.If you don't have one, then you aren't really a business man.Even electricians have one functionally. Their wife usually.
>>61387147If you have a business you are cattle lol
>>61388036Name a non cattle person. I want to know what it takes.
>>61383349Same as a car
>>61387238I mean it's rapidly approaching the point that it's not really possible to exist without a phone in a lot of contexts. Like lots of sites require two factor authentication, or a parking lot requires you to scan a QR code to pay. I hate it but you are moving from "well it's really really convenient" to "you actually just can't do some shit"
OY GEY GOY BUY THE NEW GOYPHONE RIGHT NOW FOR ONLY $1999.99 PLUS TIP DON'T WORRY GOY WE'LL JUST MAKE THAT A MONTHLY PAYMENT OF $55 FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS FOR YOU AND THEN OFFER YOU AN "FREE UPGRADE" NEXT YEAR!IT HAS NEW AI SLOPPA FEATURES!!!!
>>61383292>iPhoneThe “i” stands for india.
>>61383292not rushing out to buy the newest zogslop that's exactly the same as the past five iterations? can't believe the goyim would be so antisemitic
