Oh, do I am reminded of those damned stacks of inkjet printers in some forgotten room in the office, or my cousin’s small collection of cut-rate plastic washing machines in his backyard.
In any system, once mass manufacture became normal, a product is expected to last for a certain period of time until it breaks, and whether it could be repaired or not. But right now and in this age where most manufacture of consumer goods is now conducted by one country on this planet, any corporation will want to keep profits and business going, so by consequence with planned obsolescence they reduce the product’s quality or lifetime which will of course force the consumer to replace the product with a new one anywhere from a few years to a few days. And why corporations are increasingly anti-repair by the day, by adding minute deliberate changes in their products in their attempts to defeat what they call “unauthorized” repair.
I still can’t believe how normalized not repairing your own things became in just a period of decades. My grandparents, now deceased, were born in the thirties. Repairing things is just what you did all the way up until their fifth decade, when it started to change. Even they noticed how they just went along with it over time, since technology got past what two former farm kids who grew up without electricity could easily understand.
Oh, do I am reminded of those damned stacks of inkjet printers in some forgotten room in the office, or my cousin’s small collection of cut-rate plastic washing machines in his backyard.
In any system, once mass manufacture became normal, a product is expected to last for a certain period of time until it breaks, and whether it could be repaired or not. But right now and in this age where most manufacture of consumer goods is now conducted by one country on this planet, any corporation will want to keep profits and business going, so by consequence with planned obsolescence they reduce the product’s quality or lifetime which will of course force the consumer to replace the product with a new one anywhere from a few years to a few days. And why corporations are increasingly anti-repair by the day, by adding minute deliberate changes in their products in their attempts to defeat what they call “unauthorized” repair.
I still can’t believe how normalized not repairing your own things became in just a period of decades. My grandparents, now deceased, were born in the thirties. Repairing things is just what you did all the way up until their fifth decade, when it started to change. Even they noticed how they just went along with it over time, since technology got past what two former farm kids who grew up without electricity could easily understand.