I have an idea for a program to promote businesses that are good for the environment because they help people repair things.
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@su_liam @vfrmedia @futurebird My son's a mechanical engineer, currently working on his doctorate. They actually teach planned obsolescence in design classes. It's not clandestine. It's market advantage.
I was taught the same during the two years I spent at University (studying electronic engineering), these attitudes were part of the reason why I became disillusioned and dropped out (and that was over 30 years ago)
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I think the disappearance of these kinds of trades feeds the feeling that the modern world is terrible and strange strains of nostalgia that right wing politicians seem adept at exploiting and turning in to much uglier things... without ever bringing back any of the things from "the good old days" that were actually good.
Like shoes that you could love and have for 25 years.
I've heard people suggest that products that last slow economies. That isn't true. They change who gets to make money.
❝ I've heard people suggest that products that last slow economies. That isn't true. They change who gets to make money. ❞
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!because it’s not the parasitic class making the money but the entrepreneurial working class.
forget the loss of shoe cobblers in NYC. mechanics were everywhere. they’re gone & all you see are ads for Autozone.
that’s class war: killing garage real estate so mechanics have to work in a Wall Street owned franchise
