There’s the old “more people were in poverty before capitalism” argument.

Did capitalism bring people out of poverty? Or did access to education, healthcare, social safety nets, and proper food bring people out of poverty? Where I live, capitalism is what’s driving people into tent cities.

How does one person controlling the capital in an area, help other people if they’re gatekeeping the economic prosperity from by forcing them to perform labour, at a disproportionately low rate of recompense, to help them (the capital owner) increase their net worth? Don’t even say trickle down economics or I’ll deck you.

Okay, sure, but we’re talking about inches. 8x8 isn’t a large footprint. Don’t be obtuse. Also 4x4 is 1/4 the footprint of 8x8.

They’re not a lot bigger than a NUC. My HP mini PC’s footprint is like 8"x8"

I mean, they’re the OEM, they could easily have lowered their own prices. It’s not like they were taking a loss on each unit.

Pretending like capitalism is this new concept that needs to be fully explored and debated before we understand that it’s bad is a pretty bad faith framing of the issue. Infinite economic growth is literally impossible because Earth has finite resources and there is a finite number of humans. There is no necessity or imperative behind infinite economic growth other than to make the ruling class richer at everyone else’s expense.

Relatively cheap? Huh? At $500-$1000 they were exactly the opposite of a relatively cheap desktop machine.

Lenovo or HP mini PC would be a much better bang for your buck.