Sure, but that’s kind of a nonsequitur to the question of whether this would have ended up as e-waste.
A: Would this end up as e-waste?
B: It's the end-users' fault if it does.A: Okay, so...would this end up as e-waste?
We don’t literally know, because we can’t predict the future, but we can be reasonably certain that old tech like this laptop would have become e-waste in the hands of your average user, regardless of whether they should have been expected to take the time to learn how to prevent that or not.
Yes but if a person uses a computer and doesn’t want to learn stuff, issues that come from it are (at least partially) their fault.
Sure, but that’s kind of a nonsequitur to the question of whether this would have ended up as e-waste.
A: Would this end up as e-waste? B: It's the end-users' fault if it does. A: Okay, so...would this end up as e-waste?We don’t literally know, because we can’t predict the future, but we can be reasonably certain that old tech like this laptop would have become e-waste in the hands of your average user, regardless of whether they should have been expected to take the time to learn how to prevent that or not.