For me, right to to repair isn't just about ewaste, and preventing corporate gouging.
It's about mental health. Being able to fix your gadgets is therapeutic. Empowering. Good for the soul.
In a world full of complex technology it's easy to feel small and helpless. And maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but I think that if everyone could experience the joy of fixing or modifying a gadget now and then we'd all be a little more open minded, a little more daring. A little harder to push around.
@futurebird Empowering, that's the word.
Not having the right to repair is all about power. Corporations are in fact mafias flexing their (legal) power to force you to pay. It's a system designed to make you submit to them.
Racketeering. n. A type of organized crime in which the persons set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.
Doesn't DRM for repairs fall exactly under the definition of racketeering? But they call it "business".
It's all about power, really.
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