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Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can't sue, company points to cardboard box::NBC Bay Area’s Consumer team filed a report focused on faulty fridges, and then, viewers responded resoundingly about their own refrigerator problems....

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[–] agitatedpotato 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Consumers having rights doesn't change the type of economic system. You could have consumer rights under feudalism and that would still be feudalism. The right to mend you own fence wouldn't make your feudal lord any less of your feudal lord. Heck and that example is even a worker right not a consumer one.