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The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying … Read more
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. David Harvey
Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won’t live forever. It’s the planned obsolescence we’ve all agreed to…’Nothing says you have to swallow this,’ Rant told me. ‘You can always just die. Chuck Palahniuk
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. Brooks Stevens
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. Brooks Stevens
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence…we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete. Brooks Stevens
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster. Aldous Huxley
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. Aldous Huxley