The Cost of Our Convenience Part Six: Designed to Die. How Planned Obsolescence Keeps the World Buying

The Cost of Our Convenience Part Six: Designed to Die. How Planned Obsolescence Keeps the World Buying

There was a time when buying a refrigerator meant buying it for twenty years. Televisions were repaired, not replaced. Vacuum cleaners were handed down from one generation to the next. Mechanics rebuilt engines. Shoemakers repaired soles. Children wore clothes that had belonged …

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