Zone1 Everything you buy is designed to break

Exactly. I talk about this all the time. A friend taught me about DESIGNED OBSOLESCENCE back in the 1970s when we hooked up and started working on our own improved stereo equipment.
  • Stereo gear never sounds as good as it could because they have to sell you the 'new and improved' model they will release next year.
  • They no longer make Mesta Machine steel making equipment because they went out of business because the stuff never wore out.
  • They keep out-dating your software and making you buy new computers and cellphones not that there was ever a thing wrong with the old stuff.
  • The LP was at its pinnacle when it was replaced by the inferior CD even though it was sold as "Perfect Sound Forever" because it made them more money.
  • Everything is made out of plastic now only toi work and last long enough as their capital projections require to keep making billions for themselves.
The consumer is milked of trillions of dollars to support making other people rich unless you simply stop being a good consumer and find or make your own exceptions outside the box of what the consumer industry wants to offer you.

I bought a cordless vacuum cleaner the other day....

Two hours late it broke! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :mad:
Hopefully, you did not buy the 1 hour warranty.

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Hopefully, you did not buy the 1 hour warranty.

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I think I pulled something underneath the cleaner and then the thing stopped working, so I don't think they will replace it, they will say it was my fault :dunno:

Oh well.
 
I often wonder, what if I did build something to last and tried to sell it?

Would my life be in danger?

I don't know.

Be careful what you wish for.

Just don't build any free energy devices and you should be alright.
 
Gas water heaters 6 years. Furnaces 8. My plumber/heater man said that's the best to be expected. Don't prolong it if it's working well. Replace.
 

This light bulb was made 110 years ago, and still works

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In fact, appliances decades ago lasted for decades, instead of 5 or so years and then break as they do today. They just make crap now.

The bottom line is, things are designed to break so as to create more revenue for these corporations. They can build them to last, but don't.

In fact, I can't tell you how many items I have bought that break days after their warranty was up. Such precise engineering is as impressive as it is maddening to know that they are using their intellect to rob you of every dime they can.

IF they started to build things to last, which they have demonstrated in the past they can, would it kill the economy or make it stronger? Obviously, not throwing things away constantly would help save natural resources and not contaminate the environment as much as it does.
Engineered obsolescence, also known as planned obsolescence, is the term for what you're describing. Yes, it's true, many products are designed to fail after an X amount of uses or years, to keep consumers buying more.
 
We need to fully automate production, with smart robots and AI, ASAP, and enter into a new era of extreme abundance.
 
Everything should carry the Bic lable.

Use, then throw away.

Want to save the Earth with less pollution?
Build a television that lasts 30 years like my grandparents old Zenith did.
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Oh, the Zenith!

My family had a Curtis Mathis TV that lasted like 30 years.

That's a lot of Ed Sullivan and Walt Disney Wonderful World of Color and Batman and Gunsmoke and Saturday morning cartoons.


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Perhaps to keep people employed. There are products much more reliable also today.
Electronics are more reliable but are planned to be obsolete after a few years. Your phone, IPad, cars are no longer supported even though they still work
 
I needed to buy a new Dryer because the mother board flipped out and there were no replacements.

Why my Dryer needs a mother board, I will never know.
All I need is Dryer On/Dryer Off
 

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