“With Coca Cola, for example, they said: Why should we use a glass that doesn’t break? We make money with our glasses. […] The dealers said understandably: Who would saw off the branch he was sitting on?”
The amazing thing is how not only did a long lasting light bulb get designed early on, but that the later bulbs were designed to fail specifically after a given point (1000 hours). That’s precision.
I also blame Edward Bernays, the father of consumerism/consumption.
Capitalism strikes again
Isn’t this similar to the light bulb situation? Whereby making light-bulbs more fragile, and less reliable they increase the sales profits?
The Phoebus cartel, the beginnings of planned obsolescence.
The amazing thing is how not only did a long lasting light bulb get designed early on, but that the later bulbs were designed to fail specifically after a given point (1000 hours). That’s precision.
I also blame Edward Bernays, the father of consumerism/consumption.