• Michael@slrpnk.net
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    3 hours ago

    People would likely want products with new features and reliability.

    But what we actually have on the market is products with new features that are mostly unreliable, and slightly cheaper products with less features that are similarly or more unreliable. Our products are clearly regressing in quality even if the existence of luxury features or designs are rising.

    We are in a hostile relationship economically where almost every manufacturer is engaging in planned obsolescence (instead of using resources appropriately and making the products we want which also last).

    Corporations want us to keep buying - they are hyper-focused on perpetuating that reality.