• @jmf@lemm.ee
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    1715 hours ago

    Is this true? Buying second hand doesn’t add to gross economic output, and doesn’t add anymore jobs. I only buy smartphones second hand because the market for them is so evil, with all these throwaway landfill devices. Its one of the only boycotts I can do in this smartphone dependent world.

    • if reported creatively enough it could boost GDP, and increase the number of “independent businesses” which can be assumed to have at least one employee (the owner/ person wearing /selling clothes)

      you aren’t thinking about cooking the books hard enough.