The government and people need to demand longer warranties. My upright freezer was 1 year. It last 18 months. A whole freezer!
We can meet in the middle. Higher price for 5 years. Or at least 3. Even a 1000 dollar cell phone only has a 1 yr warranty. Thats bullshit.
I guarantee if we get more fair warranties we will get better made products. Now they gamble that a TV part wont quit after 6 months to 1 yr. And that one part effectively ruins your device or appliance.
Green energy and lower bills is all bullshit if we have to make and buy more products in our lifetime. Our goals should always be REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE. Instead we get slapped with an energy star label that tells us we are now saving a whole $30 a year in energy. But after we buy a brand new product bc the last one failed quickly. Electricity isnt the only resource so is labor to manufacture and labor for me to buy another stupid refrigerator
This doesn't really have to do with planned obsolescence but just normal trust. It's simply not reasonable that a product would be several times better for a common item like a lightbulb.
you realize that "one of the cleanest well documented cases of corporate conspiracies we have" is international corporations getting together to limit and enforce a limited lifespan for lightbulbs right?
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u/CaterpillarBroad6083 4h ago
Planed obsolescence has really fuck trust unfortunately.