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Products are designed to become instantaneously obsolete, as this ideology supports almost the entire economy of every single developed country. The reason products break is because of "planned obsolescence". It's designed to break so that replacements will be needed over and over again. Planned obsolescence began with the lightbulb; a product which was designed to break, and the fact of this breakage was inherently accepted by the consumer as being, just the way it is with such products. In the...


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