Advertisements General Motors (GM) is often credited with pioneering the concept of planned obsolescence in the automotive industry, a practice where products are designed to have a limited useful life or to become outdated rapidly. This strategy encourages consumers to purchase new products more frequently, boosting sales and ensuring continuous revenue for manufacturers. Origins of […]
  • activistPnkM
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    1 month ago

    Always useful to know who to blame. Innovators of planned obsolescence probably get a lot of pats on the back inside the giant corporations but the assholes probably don’t get a shred of shame from the public.

    It was once proposed that climate-related natural disasters be named after people like CEOs of oil companies. Along those lines, it would be fitting to name every e-waste landfill after an innovator or pusher of planned obsolescence. Though it wouldn’t have the exposure it diserves. Maybe we need anti-planned obsolscence laws that are named after the motherfuckers who created need for the law.