Most consumers arent that informed, though.

If you look at a shelf of iPhones, you will just pick whichever one looks the best.

It'd be a complete gamble on which ones are shit and which ones arent

Ok, and then maybe the fucking Normie's will learn

If there was only one iPhone brand, you could generally get an idea of what you're buying based on brandname alone

>normies will learn
lol

Shouldn't baby them

They'll learn once they get ripped off a few times

why do you think Macbooks sell despite not being that great

brand

recognition

the apple logo is like crack to hipsters and uppermiddleclass people

@Double Negative Of course, but if there was a bunch of knock off ones, or ones that were essentially the same but cheaper

Then well

>essentially the same but cheaper
not always how price reduction works

usually they do so at expense of build quality

Lets look at a real case of consumer ignorance and exploitation. Remember when cigarette companies lied to the public and severely underplayed the toxicity of cigarettes

It is when youre against Apple

Cigarettes aren't that bad, the lack of them has created soyboys

Until the state intervened, cigarette commercialisation was a constant, including ads showing fake doctors endorsing cigarettes

Ok, thats neat. This is why ancap couldn't work back in the day

>back in the day

https://youtu.be/gCMzjJjuxQI

nigger when you remove those regulations it will be like back in the day

Before the information age retard

>information age
you think corporations wont spread disinfo online?

Vaping companies would do the research

Companies like Google are already regulsting information

Fake news

Universities still exist in ancapistan too

The information age isnt perfect

vaping company shillbots vs malboro shillbots that pay search engines to remove contradicting info

@Tinker Tom universities existed in the 50's too

Wow amazing

I never knew that

There is a long history of companes influencing studies too, like cigarette companies and the meat industry

unless if you're a medical student with a significant interest in lungs and nicotine you probably wouldnt learn anything about the harmful effects of smoking in your studies

I have many examples

unlike today where the government stepped in and made it common knowledge

But now we know. Name one thing that could be harmful that companies are peddling right now

cigarettes