What happened to circuit board assembly volume after people stopped buying blackberry phones? Cell phone ownership? Smart phone ownership?
The same plants that made rim components are making components for the phones we have now and production has increased. The mines that extracted coltan, copper, gold, oil and many more raw materials used in the manufacture of rim devices are still operating and total global production has increased.
Removing one product of a complex supply chain will not cause that chain to go slack. The market will find a place to sell its output and if there isn’t one it will manufacture it. If there isn’t demand it will manufacture that too.
We cannot stop emission at the point of consumption.
I didn’t say anything about a militant movement at the point of production (although I think it will be required when we tell the people making billions that the factory has to shut down or shift to something less profitable). What I said was that boycotts don’t work unless paired with a militant movement, which is borne out by the few examples of boycotts involved in successful struggles (Montgomery, arguably bds, etc.).
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What happened to circuit board assembly volume after people stopped buying blackberry phones? Cell phone ownership? Smart phone ownership?
The same plants that made rim components are making components for the phones we have now and production has increased. The mines that extracted coltan, copper, gold, oil and many more raw materials used in the manufacture of rim devices are still operating and total global production has increased.
Removing one product of a complex supply chain will not cause that chain to go slack. The market will find a place to sell its output and if there isn’t one it will manufacture it. If there isn’t demand it will manufacture that too.
We cannot stop emission at the point of consumption.
I didn’t say anything about a militant movement at the point of production (although I think it will be required when we tell the people making billions that the factory has to shut down or shift to something less profitable). What I said was that boycotts don’t work unless paired with a militant movement, which is borne out by the few examples of boycotts involved in successful struggles (Montgomery, arguably bds, etc.).