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They literally make things now days to last a max of 2 years so you have to buy more. We think we are so technologically advanced, but we are being played for fools.
planned obsolescence.
It's weird that this planned obsolescence has been major since the late 2000's.
It has been a massive thing since the end of WWII. It has existed in many different ways, the biggest incarnation of it is simply 'style'. Clothes are only now meant to be worn for a single season, atleast ideally by the manufacturers. This rapid change in fashion was the reason that people in the 70s, 80s and 90s all look distinctly different. It was an intentional choice by the fashion industry to create more demand for clothing from the same supply. If i walked around in my fathers clothes from when he was the same age as i am now i'd look like a tit. Same happened with cars, each year for the first few models they would change the color. Almost nothing different other than the color, and that ensured that everybody knew you were driving an older model.
another good example is apple. Every year the same product with small changes that 'REVOLUTIONIZE' the game, except its generally the same camera, call and browse the internet.
But the new fridge will have energy savings, protecting the environment for the next 2 years before it breaks.
slightly offsetting a fraction of the waste produced in its manufacture before it breaks.
For a 2 year lifespan, it's better to keep an old fridge running for those 2 years if you care about the environment.
Remember when kids would suffocate inside refrigerators playing around? Practically a safe/vault.
I imagine my food would keep for more than a week if my fridge was that good.
This only happened with fridges which had a locking mechanism with a haandle. They stopped making those. Those were fridges from around the 50s at latest.
My grandma had one in her basement. She put soda and beer in it for company since everyone would congregate at her house during holidays. She died in 2016. It still worked.
I want to find one. Funny how the old junk becomes cool in a few decades.
You're buying Chinese junk today that you weren't buying 40 years ago.
This. Maytag is still made in USA. Even Samsung is at least made in Korea.
built-in wear it's called.
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