• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Isn’t this similar to the light bulb situation? Whereby making light-bulbs more fragile, and less reliable they increase the sales profits?

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      4 months ago

      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.