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Planned obsooescence is a time bomb in products, particularly electronics by [Apple](/s/crApple). It means deliberately making a device become defunct sooner and components last for a shorter time. It is a tactic to make people purchase their next product sooner (after the deliberately shortened lifespan of their previous product expired). # Should planned obsolescence be **outlawed?**

Planned obsooescence is a time bomb in products, particularly electronics by .

It means deliberately making a device become defunct sooner and components last for a shorter time.

It is a tactic to make people purchase their next product sooner (after the deliberately shortened lifespan of their previous product expired).

Should planned obsolescence be outlawed?

No.
Yes, it should be outlawed.

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Not necesserally because they have nowhere else to go

Just because they are fine where they are and don't want to move that's all

Using force on 10 000 people? Armed?

You'll need an army for that, chain of command, logistics, administration, etc...

A fucking gov in the end, because that's where it leads

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So you'll always have a relatively big chunk of the population that won't agree with all the program

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Just because they are fine where they are and don't want to move that's all

You contradict yourself.

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Absolutely not

The fact they don't agree with "the program", has nothing to do with the piece of land they enjoy

You can very well love north america, the land for what it is, and hate "the program"/social order ruling it

There's zero contradiction

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Who owns the land? The people who live on it, or the people imposing rules upon it?