• @[email protected]
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    6 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?

    • Rhaedas
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      196 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      96 months ago

      I found this to be a great video discussing why lightbulbs are engineered the way they are. TLDR: reducing lifespan increases efficiency and light quality

    • @PunnyName
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      36 months ago

      They used to simply last longer, too. Fragility be damned.

        • @Plopp
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          86 months ago

          I want to start a company that focuses on creating shit that lasts. Ain’t nobody getting rich off of my company, but the people get goods that they’ll never have to replace, basically. Sadly I’ve got ADD so this will never happen, I’m sorry y’all.