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