This explains a lot of the business models for todays products. Things we were bringing up in the Taryls shop closing thread. It starts out about light bulbs, but it goes into other products.
One thing particularly that really caught my attention, was the companies allowing the government to fine other companies who made a bulb that lasted longer than 1000 hours.
If company build solid, long lasting products, they'd never achieve the profit margin increases, year after year.
As I regularly state the problem with the USA is Wall St not the White House
Wall St actually runs everything
As for obsolesence yes they are correct
This is being typed on a 2012 I Mac that I will either have to find a patch for or dump because it can no longer make an SSL connection with a lot of web sites .
My I Phone 4 will end it's life after having 1 battery replacement ( not easy but quite cheap ) because the G 3 network is closing down .
Technically better , no way in fact analogue mobile phones were far technically superior than any digital one if all you wanted was a phone .
Do we need all of those phone apps , no way I have but one that did not come with the phone and that is simply to locate LPG service stations as they are closing down.
My daily ride is a 1943 motorcycle but I do go shopping on the 1972 one some times .
Climate change is happening because we buy way too much stuff and replace it way too soon, not because our mowers run on petrol .
I now have to buy the one last brand of boot with a genuine stitched on sole but new soles are $ 50 compared to the boot which costs $ 40 .
Everything else has a moulded sole that actually hold the boot together so when the sole wears thin the boot is trash .
And the government is facilitating this by allowing businesss to merge down to monopolies or duolopies.
Even a few years back when we had Murray & Noma we had a lot better mowers now there is not a single US domestic mower that I can recommend to my customers .
And the bottom end commercials are not much better
