Archive for February, 2008

Consumer Poison: Planned Obsolescence

Friday, February 29th, 2008

While companies are spending billions of advertising dollars to convince you that their brand is cool, trustworthy, and reliable… behind consumers’ backs they are also paying their engineers to create products that will break down sooner than necessary. That’s so you’ll buy another one, and if they’ve caught you with their advertising, you’ll buy it [...]

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