Nothing lasts anymore, y'know planned obsolescence and whatnot but like seriously where do I buy stuff that lasts, I'm talking everything from clothing to appliances, etc

Also clothing companies with lifetime warranties would be good

    • chauncey [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      A lot of research is also put into figuring out what the minimal length of time a customer will tolerate for a product’s lifetime.

      What an absolute waste

      • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        spending millions to find out i can make number line go up by producing productbad, without considering number line also go up when productgood :cap-think:

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah but ignoring the massive waste in garbage, pollution, energy use, time, etc. Why would a company want everyone to buy something every 6 years when if they made it cheaper people will now buy it every 2 years and be almost as happy?

          In order to reform the current system, longevity needs to be rewarded and short lifetimes disincentivized. Or you know, just fully change the system of production.

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            all those waste disposal and energy industries are also profit opportunities, the money markets for pollution are only going up baby! :porky-happy:

    • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
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      4 years ago

      Wasn't there like a lightglobe cartel for a while, where all the lightglobe manufactuters agreed to ensure none of their lightglobes would last longer thatn xyz hours, and would always burn out before that time, even though it would have been super-duper easy to make them last 10x as long, but then they'd make 10x less money because nobody is going to buy a lightglobe that costs 10x what the other ones costs, no matter how long its sposed to last. Its really funny you should bring them up actually because I was surfin YouTube the other day and came across an unboxing video for lightglobes that came up while I was watching cute animal videos for some reason, but its supposedly one from Dubai that they made a deal with GE that's really special and you can never get it anywhere else because it would disrupt their business model because of how long it lastts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4