It’s just been pointed out to me that the reason Apple runs a trade-in programme for older devices is so they can reduce the size of the used market, and has fuck all to do with recycling.
Further to this, as I get older and (hopefully) more wise to the world, one of the things that’s really hit me is how everything has a price. Everything.
In this situation, Apple has decided that it’s worth them giving someone a £150 discount on a new phone in order to guarantee that they’ll make more money selling newer phones.
As someone who never really thinks about economy, it’s amazing to me that people’s brains work that way on an industrial scale.
Currently reading (again) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
It’s a very thinly veiled practical guide to socialism that was published 110 years ago, but which could have come out this year and still say basically the same things about society. About how employers and capitalists try to wring every last ounce of energy for the least amount of pay, and about how many of the working poor are taught from birth that this is correct.
Atop being tired at the moment, I’m feeling a bit blue after listening to a podcast about amphetamines yesterday.
It was interesting, but really did highlight how #ADHD is actually a societal “disorder”, and how much it fucks me up because of what’s expected of me. Left alone with no expectations to earn enough money to live, my ADHD would barely affect me.
But here I am, struggling to keep up, because people with a lot of money want more of it.
Funny how musicians pop up out of nowhere sometimes, isn't it?
So last night I got a hankering to hear Kerry Ellis' somewhat wonderfully over the top version of Defying Gravity*. Just looking through her stuff on Apple Music, see an album that came out a few months back. And wouldn't you know, there's a duet with Newton Faulkner on there!
I absolutely adored his first couple of albums, and had his demo from before he was signed.
I'd be interested to see if anyone has made a website that examines political promises and tallies them up with the outcomes (if any).
For example; in a manifesto a party promises to increase nurses' pay by 15%, but when in government fight the union and only end up giving them 3%.
I've been thinking about why working class people vote Tory, despite them never, never making good on their promises, and would like to see the data on what they do actually provide.
I'd also like to see evidence of whether government policy has actively made things worse for regular working class people, or whether we're just basing our feelings on vibes.
I'm pretty sure they have, and things genuinely are financially shitter because of policy, but around an election it would be very useful to have solid figures to point at.
Because there just isn't any good reason for any working class* person to vote conservative that I can see. Not one.
They overpromise and underdeliver every single time. But still, the voters fall for it and give them another chance, as if the evidence suggests this time will be different. Except, it's never any different. Tories promise X&Y, then just...don't.
After some thought, it's 'Walking After You' from Foo Fighters absolutely phenomenal The Colour & The Shape.
It comes after Everlong, which is comfortably one of the best songs ever recorded, so how could a quiet, contemplative number such as that possibly stand up to scrutiny. Which is unfair, of course. It is a lovely thing, but it's not Everlong.
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