Rega may not be greedy like others, my point is ’proprietary’ greedy, like Apple, who changed the charger every generation, making you buy new cords, new connectors, new chargers, and limiting the memory so it wasn’t enough for the next ’system’, and you could not replace the battery. It took an act of a Continent to force them to use usb-c. Products: great; get my money, no way.
Rega: ’just stick with their cartridges’ and you will be fine.’ That is what I think of as ’proprietary’ greed.
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My last comment about Exxon, certainly not a TT, which I just offered up so you get a better clue of my personality when I say ’nasty’ about not providing the needed measurements and printing light grey on white, which seemed to upset Rega fans.
After their day in court, they were originally fined 5 Billion". They set aside money, and made interest on it for 19 years, before paying a small share of that.
from an AI quickie:
"ecological damage ranged between $2.8 billion and $7.2 billion—far exceeding the $1 billion Exxon paid for natural resource damages
Exxon recovered $780 million through insurance claims. This means the company paid $1.72 billion directly.
($2.5 billion - $780 million = $1.72 billion) / $2.5 billion = 68.8%, which rounds to about 70%.
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How much did the spill cost the environment?
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The environmental cost of the Exxon Valdez spill is difficult to quantify in a single dollar amount, but studies estimate the public’s willingness to pay to avoid the ecological damage ranged between $2.8 billion and $7.2 billion—far exceeding the $1 billion Exxon paid for natural resource damages. The spill caused immense harm, contaminating 1,300 miles of shoreline and killing an estimated 250,000 seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, 22 killer whales, and billions of fish eggs. Decades later, oil remains in the environment, and some species have still not fully recovered. "