Livre d'Or

"Strictly better" is often a nasty sticking point - my laptop's in a complex niche like that because it's a passively-cooled quad core Bay Trail-based device that I've shoved an SSD in. Its direct and thus similarly cheap successors don't have the drive bay, the other cheap options need fans, after that I'm looking at more than twice the outlay to be confident of similar performance for my most performance-critical task and adequate storage. Yay?

Not so much "no point" as that ethical sourcing is often one or both of a literal luxury and a branding exercise that's at least less of an improvement than suggested - which at least makes it quite possible it's not the most effective way for people on low incomes[1] (and capitalism tries to ensure that's quite a lot of people) to make the overall system less bad, and definitely suggests that shaming people over sourcing is likely to have a classist aspect to it. To put it another way, FairPhone probably does less good than pressuring Apple and FoxConn - which still does nothing for the bulk of phone manufacture as Apple make most of the actual profits in that industry.

Then you get the big mess that is globalisation-as-colonisation to worry about, especially if the brand of ethical being advertised is Made In $yourCountry.

I seem to have a worse run-on sentence problem than usual. Might have something to do with it being bedtime here because my sleep phase is even worse than usual!

[1] Relative to their cost of living, of course. Gotta love housing bubbles.