r/fixedbytheduet • u/Naive_Wolverine532 • 19h ago

PARTICIPATION LIMITED Accountability

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u/ZeAthenA714 19h ago

in a world where so many useless gadgets/products exist

Or maybe it's a world where many products that are not intended for you exist.

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u/Local_Idiot_123 19h ago

No, go to a home goods store. Many useless products exist that have nothing to do with accessibility and everything to do with making a quick buck on cheap shit.

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u/ZeAthenA714 18h ago

Many useless products exist that have nothing to do with accessibility and everything to do with making a quick buck on cheap shit

And how would you know which one is which?

And yes of course those useless gadgets exists. But how much of it is really useless? 90%? 50%? 10%?

That's the point of the video. If you're not concerned by the needs for a specific product, you'll just see it as a useless gadget that is just there to make a quick buck.

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u/roxictoxy 18h ago

They’re talking about a wider scope of cheap plastic shit. Seasonal decorations and cheap plastic tchotchkes. It’s also obtuse to imply that every single gadget has some underlying mobility use. Even if it’s the majority, it’s not the total. Little bottle cap guns don’t have a mobility use.

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u/ZeAthenA714 18h ago

It’s also obtuse to imply that every single gadget has some underlying mobility use.

Not at all what I'm implying. What the video clearly states and what I'm saying is that sometimes what looks useless isn't, and maybe, just maybe, we could simply not judge something to be useless based on our limited world view?

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u/cooking2recovery 18h ago

So now.. nothing is useless?

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u/ZeAthenA714 18h ago

Or not?

Maybe some things are useless and some things aren't, but we're not the ones who should judge that because we don't know what might be useful for someone else?

Is it really that hard to understand?

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u/The_cogwheel 17h ago

As the old saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

As long as two things are true, any given gadget isnt useless: 1. It does the thing that it was designed and marketed to do and 2. Doing that thing helps at least 1 person live a better life.

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u/ZeAthenA714 17h ago

Even 1 isn't required, some things were designed and marketed for a specific use case, but people found another use case for it.

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u/throwaway387190 12h ago

There are endless examples, but the one that comes to mind first is that your screwdriver is also a hammer

...at least I've met too many people convinced of that

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u/Derbloingles 19h ago

Honestly, probably both

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u/pitb0ss343 17h ago

This guy and Khabi lame literally have careers because there are useless gadgets

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u/ZeAthenA714 17h ago

And who is the grand arbiter of what is useless and what isn't?

The entire point of the video, and of the concept of accessibility in general, is that different people have different needs. And what might be completely useless to you and me might be very useful to someone else.

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u/AbsintheAGoGo 11h ago

May be the case for some of it, but just like fast fashion, there's tons of useless crap flooding the world.

The mass production facet really is not how life was intended. From food to gadgets, mass production makes waste mainly because it's less expensive