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Planned Obsolescence

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Planned Obsolescence

Jan 25, 2022

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Planned Obsolescence

If you design a product that lasts forever and you intend to build a business around that product—you want to sustain production of it, but also want to pay your own bills, your employees' paychecks, and other such expenses—you quickly run into a numbers problem in terms of available customers; there are only so many people on the planet, and far fewer …

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