More like the corporations got wise and started intentionally manufacturing everything with a calculated end of life so they could continue to make profits by continuously releasing sub par upgrades or models with different features for different price points once or twice a year by focusing most of their spending on marketing and barely anything on r&d or qc and buying bottom barrel minimum standard components mfgd by 3rd world slaves who hate us.
They propelled consumer electronics as religion to fulfill the irreligious, then released a new product every year.
That is the absolute best description I've heard of this. It really is like a religious event when the next iPhone comes out.
My inexpensive fridge had an ice dam once, so I took off the back of the freezer side (where the cooling takes place). There were scorch marks all over the cardboard and whatever, I would say they take deliberate steps to cause failure.
They did that with printers after so many pages had been printed.
Supply follows demand. If consumers stop buying anything they suspect will be garbage the companies will supply quality products. Hell, in the short term all it would take is 60% of the market research participants rating products and giving feedback accordingly.
But there's a deeper problem: the planned and controlled continual transfer of wealth upward. Most people are too poor to invest in quality. They have to choose to go into debt for a quality item or buy what they can afford. Either way they lose.
Furthermore our billionaire overlords are using every bit of manipulation they have available to confuse the issue and hide the value in a lasting product. Without critical information the consumers are lost.
Supply follows demand. If consumers stop buying anything they suspect will be garbage the companies will supply quality products.
They'd put more money into making their products seem like quality and buying any start up that makes quality goods, when people need a replacement for something vital they won't have a choice except to buy trash.
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