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> Right? People claim that the pricing is "absurd" as if they're forced to buy it.

What is the implication of this? You're not allowed to criticize a product unless you're being forced to buy it? What is the list of companies you're allowed to levy any critiques of, then? Your electricity provider? You could always move, right?

Is this the mentality that leads people to only ever criticize government power and let all others off the hook?


I sometimes feel like people criticize products as if they were offered to them personally. The pricing of a product may be absurd to them but if it were absurd to everyone there wouldn't be a market for it.

You can objectively compare the features between two products and criticize them that way. But to criticize the price you need to attach a monetary value to those features. With a framework one of those features is repairability, which to some is worth nothing, and to others it's worth a whole lot.

So is the frameworks pricing absurd? That depends on the person buying.

So you're not allowed to criticize pricing unless you're forced to buy it?
I am not prohibiting anyone from doing anything. I am just saying I don't think people should criticize pricing as if they're forced to buy it.
Do you have any evidence that anyone, ever, has been forced to buy a (framework) laptop?

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