Godammn vacuum cleaner broke. Took it apart, its just a part of the brush roller that is broken. Should be an easy fix. But they don't sell spare parts for my vacuum. They never have, they just want you to buy a new one. So one little easily replaced plastic bit makes the whole thing into non-functional mostly plastic waste. The vacuum is even clearly designed to be easily repaired, it's one of the most intelligently laid out appliances I've ever seen.

But it's not profitable to sell spare parts, so I have to send this thing to a landfill if I can't figure out some ghetto fix. This intentional wastefulness is one of the things that pisses me off about capitalism nearly every day.

  • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Liberals here often don't think about it like that anymore. It's not your property to do whatever you want with, it's you paid for a service and any physical goods involved are incidental. It's like capitalism here is begining to transcend physical reality.