It's not just that things seemed designed to break, it's the disappearance of fix-it shops because the cost of fixing something is more than the cost of buying something new.
I actually think about this issue whenever they talk about 'green machines.' I wonder: 1. will it last and 2. will it's energy savings off-set chucking a perfectly good piece of working machinery
Needless to say, I believe all this to be changing, though I'm kind of horrified by the idea of everybody going digital and having heaps of televisions (and radios, too?) that no longer work. (It was supposed to happen this year, but apparently we have until 2009.)
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Date: 2008-01-31 02:51 pm (UTC)It's not just that things seemed designed to break, it's the disappearance of fix-it shops because the cost of fixing something is more than the cost of buying something new.
I actually think about this issue whenever they talk about 'green machines.' I wonder: 1. will it last and 2. will it's energy savings off-set chucking a perfectly good piece of working machinery
Needless to say, I believe all this to be changing, though I'm kind of horrified by the idea of everybody going digital and having heaps of televisions (and radios, too?) that no longer work. (It was supposed to happen this year, but apparently we have until 2009.)