While I get your point, they already have that stuff bought and I think you’re vastly overestimating how much some of that cost really impacts the cost of the good. Yes it would go up, but not nearly that much.

Which is also to say that corporations love these things because they mean they can just make wild claims about how impacted they are and raise prices pretty much however much they want.

“We won’t make the same mistake this time” yet ya’ll keep doing it over and over again. Besides empty platitudes, what are you gunna do to stop it?

Is that a defence or something else?

If it’s a defence, bear in mind that Windows is dogshit.

“Consumers with the funds to do the consuming” well wouldn’t that be grand. Unfortunately that would involve paying people and executives are allergic to basic decency even when the core of it is ultimately selfishness.