even for the use cases where you would be doing productivity, because apple refuses to build them to do fuck all for some reason. Though with the m series macs, you can just pay an additional 500 dollars and get an actually usable amount of ram. It used to be a lot worse on the intel macs because apple didnt understand heat dissipation
If you want to smash capitalism in general, engage in the second hand market wherever possible, it’s your friend, it saves you money, it saves ewaste from the planet, and it prevents you from giving money to the big corpo.