Three experts - Jim Puckett, Bob Houghton, and Niel Peters-Michaud are three Boomer White Guy Experts who will tell us all why people should be arrested if they sell used electronics to a willing buyer from Emerging Markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Most of those people who sell there are part of the diaspora - expatriate Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans (like Joseph "Hurricane" Benson). Nobody like that is represented on this panel of experts.
Here are some questions in advance:
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1) What is the average years of use of new devices sold to ("rich nation") OECD?
2) What is the average years of use of new devices sold to ("poor nation") non-OECD?
3) What is the average years of use of used devices in OECD?
4) What is the average years of use of used devices in the non-OECD?
In the not-so distant past, Jim Puckett and Bob Houghton both claimed that 80% of exports of used devices (#4) to Emerging Markets was waste. After every single study showed 1) that's not economically even possible, and 2) no sample comes remotely similar to Jim's claim, and 3) Jim's source for Agbogbloshie (Mike "Fishing as a Boy" Anane) was making everything up or citing Jim.
Confronted in 2013 with the Big Lie about 80% of E-Waste, Jim changed his answer to "no one knows, but it is illegal".
So a few more questions:
