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I've been taught that capitalism is all about innovation... So I'm sure the perfect long life car is just around the corner, they wouldn't actually just build crappy cars just to force us in a never ending cycle of consumerism, right?... Right?
/S ... in case it wasn't on the nose enough
Planned obsolescence should be illegal and strongly punished
Absolutely!... It would be hard to write a law against it, but definitely we should try
Planned obsolesce is like steroid for an infection in our consumerist societies