Planned obsolescence as an industry standard is price fixing. Its the legal, hidden equivalent to retailers jacking their prices in unison. Purchases: remember its not just the price, but how much you’re getting. Take something like dish soap. The water and container aren’t of any use to you, so lets assume when you buy a container of dish soap you are really just after a quantity of soap ingredients. (more…)
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Fixing Prices and Everything Else
February 11, 2010Tags:accountability, action, ads, advertisments, better, business, change, civilization, clean, cleanup, comedy, complaint, conservation, consumer, consumers, consuming, consumption, corporate, demand, difference, disposal, energy, environment, excess, existence, fix, fixes, fuel, future, garbage, gas, gases, gov, government, groups, humanity, improve, junk, landfill, management, news, no good, organic, PETA, prices, problems, purchase, recycling, resources, rip off, ripped off, sales, science, shops, social, society, solve, stores, supply, systems, technology, television, test, trash, tv, unfair, waste, wastful, western, words, world
Posted in consumption, corporate, technology, waste | 13 Comments »
Making Planned Obsolescence Illegal
December 26, 2008
Ever wonder how the package knows exactly when your light bulb will burn out? Annoyed that yet another cellphone battery has gone dead and replacements are not available? Amazed at the precision with which manufacturers are able to make products that last exactly 2 weeks longer than their warranties? (more…)
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Posted in civilization, consumption, government, philosophy, politics, science, technology, waste | 30 Comments »
Throw out perfectly good goods
December 8, 2008
“Change your TV, change your life”- an actual slogan. I heard it last night. I’d also like to note, before i continue, the commercials where a woman throws her perfectly good washing machine into a pool so she will need to buy a new “red” one- to enrich her life. Also the commercial where the couple throws their phones into a lake (more…)
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Gas, A Good One
November 20, 2008Here’s a good trick. Price of oil has potential to go up; gas prices immediately go up by a larger percentage. . . but. . . .oil prices go down in reality, gas prices very slowly and reluctantly go down by a smaller percentage. (more…)
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