Extortion (To get money by misuse of authority)?

The IBM PC was developed more than 30 years ago. It has evolved into the "PC." It is integrated into most government offices, business offices, and homes due to programs specific to its operating system. Most professional jobs require excellent skills with PCs. Government, and businesses, have blessed the PCs with authority over most people's lives. You are either well-skilled, or you don't have a job.

A person, or company, must agree to incomprehensible legal gibberish to use virtually any computer. In effect, you are "extorted" to either agree, or be insignificant. The operating system (OS) and application programs for PCs seem designed to force "upgrades" to products that don't work well. The OS and hardware are not properly designed to preclude malicious attacks. "Security updates" are absolute proof of a poorly designed OS.

You can't buy an older PC OS, one you have learned well enough to be productive if you get (or build) a new computer. Those older OS versions are "unsupported." Worse yet, many application programs are constantly changed. They fail to work with an "unsupported" OS, and eventually force a person to buy a new OS. You must either "upgrade" or find your computer can't get information from the Internet. You can't get repair parts to maintain older computers that would continue to be productive.

We live in a world where people are trained that what is old is not repaired (in fact things seem designed to fail), but replaced. If it is old, discard it. It is no longer valuable.

People get old. They are no longer useful, and the wisdom from years of life conflicts with "progress."

Should both old computers and people be discarded?

Thomas Fancher

Moses Lake