This is why we can't have nice things

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References:
The Man in the White Suit - ve42.co/Suit
London, B. (1932). Ending the depression through planned obsolescence. - ve42.co/London32
Slade, G. (2009). Made to break: Technology and obsolescence in America. Harvard University Press - ve42.co/madetobreak
Krajewski, M. (2014). The great lightbulb conspiracy. IEEE spectrum, 51(10), 56-61. - ve42.co/Phoebus
Planet Money, The Phoebus Cartel - ve42.co/PMobs
The Light Bulb Conspiracy - • The Light Bulb Conspiracy
Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Mac Malkawi, Oleksii Leonov, Michael Schneider, Jim Osmun, Tyson McDowell, Ludovic Robillard, jim buckmaster, fanime96, Juan Benet, Ruslan Khroma, Robert Blum, Richard Sundvall, Lee Redden, Vincent, Lyvann Ferrusca, Alfred Wallace, Arjun Chakroborty, Joar Wandborg, Clayton Greenwell, Pindex, Michael Krugman, Cy 'kkm' K'Nelson, Sam Lutfi, Ron Neal
Written by Derek Muller and Petr Lebedev
Animation by Ivy Tello
Filmed by Derek Muller and Raquel Nuno
Edited by Derek Muller
Video supplied by Getty Images
Music by Jonny Hyman and from epidemicsound.com"Aquatic Planet", "Rhythm of Dreams", "Tread Lightly", "Unexpected Visitors", "Curved Mirrors" "Drunken Lullaby" "Fluorescent Lights"
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  • @rossmanngroup
    @rossmanngroup3 жыл бұрын

    8.5 million people watch you, and you planted a seed today in their mind about right to repair. Thank you.

  • @ginichimaru5476

    @ginichimaru5476

    3 жыл бұрын

    🖖🏽

  • @CusomPCs

    @CusomPCs

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yooo the og

  • @aadityachhitarka1938

    @aadityachhitarka1938

    3 жыл бұрын

    I expected you here

  • @junkbucket50

    @junkbucket50

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOUIS!

  • @Fleurlean4

    @Fleurlean4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I knew you’d like this

  • @besmart
    @besmart3 жыл бұрын

    On the other hand, KZread is filled with lots of unplanned obsolescence

  • @DyslexicMitochondria

    @DyslexicMitochondria

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha yep

  • @mattearenzi8972

    @mattearenzi8972

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@DyslexicMitochondria OMG Hi! I watch your channeI. Absolutely love your videos bro. U made me fall in love with science haha

  • @gradientO

    @gradientO

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @abhaykashyapa

    @abhaykashyapa

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah! I love your videos too

  • @somespecies

    @somespecies

    3 жыл бұрын

    Literally everything now is filled with lots of unplanned obsolescence

  • @itptires
    @itptires9 ай бұрын

    As an engineer this is why its frustrating when people talk about how dumb the engineers are for designing this the way they did etc.... my response is always to the effect of the engineers can design just about anything to work well and last forever but corporate/ management wouldn't want it

  • @painkillerjones6232

    @painkillerjones6232

    5 ай бұрын

    True, but you sure seem GOOD at designing these built-in defects.

  • @matthewsalvador9783

    @matthewsalvador9783

    5 ай бұрын

    Engineers can’t win or lose. The customers and corporations want it one way while the other want it’s another… Now I understand not to blame the engineers for doing their job… but to become an engineer myself and make improvements so i the customer is happy and the corporation can think for themselves for once… I’ve improved many things. They were actually better then the originals there’s always room for improvement.

  • @aleanddragonITA

    @aleanddragonITA

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@matthewsalvador9783 If you did the then Megacorps would make you be arrested The video above said it Those that make Lightbulb more durable then get fine in proportion as how durable they are

  • @TheDiosdebaca

    @TheDiosdebaca

    4 ай бұрын

    My issue isn't with engineers, it's when poor design makes the usable product fail prematurely (within warranty periods, for instance), when a very inexpensive modification would prevent the warranty costs for the manufacturer and frustration from the consumer. Like a $.25 piece of plastic to prevent water from dripping on a $500 controller.

  • @cam6202

    @cam6202

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@matthewsalvador9783 my problem is when things that need to be worked on are designed to be difficult to work on.

  • @jrstrange123
    @jrstrange1233 ай бұрын

    A JD tractor my grandfather owned back in the 40’s is to this day running strong. It’s a beast that has outlasted three tractors I have bought since the late 90’s.

  • @jennifermarlow.

    @jennifermarlow.

    Ай бұрын

    We had a fridge from the early 50s. It was still working in the early 2000s, when my parents threw it out (it was at the country home). For no reason. It just ticked me off. They have already replaced the one they replaced it with. SMDH

  • @Nighthawkinlight
    @Nighthawkinlight3 жыл бұрын

    Great video! As a carbon filament lightbulb enthusiast I'm glad you didn't hold out the centennial bulb as an example of long life in and of itself, as the limited power supply is certainly the main factor. The only flaw in this video (in my opinion) is the led bulb being held out as finally being everlasting. If anything, planned obsolescence is more at work in led bulbs than ever. Sure, the leds themselves last, but the components in the base of the bulb which supply the leds with dc power are absolutely not made to last (edit: Actually I should qualify that statement, because I don't know about all manufacturers. There could be some good ones.). You could make your own led bulb that would last far longer than those sold off the shelf.

  • @sleepy_Dragon

    @sleepy_Dragon

    3 жыл бұрын

    Using the cheapest parts that fulfill the requirements saves a lot of money when mass producing. So a no-brainer for maximizing profit. Shorter lifespan is a welcome side effect.

  • @Nighthawkinlight

    @Nighthawkinlight

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sleepy_Dragon That's the trouble. You can rarely prove planned obsolescence because an equal excuse could be that the manufacturer just cheaps out on quality. In this case using quality parts would equate to only a few cents more per bulb, so the scale seems to lean one direction rather strongly, though there's some weight on both sides.

  • @kjyost

    @kjyost

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sleepy_Dragon If efficiency is what we are after, running more LEDs at lower voltage is where it is at. But of course manufacturers will never go for that.

  • @sleepy_Dragon

    @sleepy_Dragon

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kjyost Cost efficiency for the producer means cheapest parts while advertising "maximum output". More light for the Watt sells.

  • @BrokenSymmetryBand

    @BrokenSymmetryBand

    3 жыл бұрын

    Check out the special bulbs the Saudi's ordered from Philips/Osram if you want to know what a real long life led bulb looks like. Cant buy 'em here.. surprise!

  • @JerryRigEverything
    @JerryRigEverything3 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thank you for bringing attention to this.

  • @lewin6348

    @lewin6348

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love your voice

  • @moidhassan5552

    @moidhassan5552

    3 жыл бұрын

    wow, what a crossover

  • @jcorpz7796

    @jcorpz7796

    3 жыл бұрын

    woah

  • @slowhand8219

    @slowhand8219

    3 жыл бұрын

    sudah malam

  • @Yofish77

    @Yofish77

    3 жыл бұрын

    Here before this comment blows up

  • @theresespencer2827
    @theresespencer2827Ай бұрын

    We bought our house in 1999, and it came with an old brown electric stove, built by American Motors Corporation sometime in the 1970's or so. It has outlasted all the other appliances we bought when we moved in.

  • @james__anna_burns4885

    @james__anna_burns4885

    Ай бұрын

    my house was built in the 60’s. the same oven has been running, and even the broiler still works

  • @jennifermarlow.

    @jennifermarlow.

    Ай бұрын

    @@james__anna_burns4885 My family's country home has a wood / propane Moffat stove from the 40s, still in working order.

  • @RyanTaylor03
    @RyanTaylor039 ай бұрын

    I've been following the right to repair movement for a few years now and the attention it's been getting has been great, there's been some decent wins for the fight recently. I hope that this video encourages you to do research and avoid products where the manufacturer put R&D money into making sure you get screwed 2 years after purchase

  • @ScoutSniper3124
    @ScoutSniper31243 жыл бұрын

    When I was a young boy and my Grandfather complained "They keep making this junk cheaper so you have to keep buying it"... he must have said that a hundred times to me over the years... turns out Grandpa knew what the hell he was talking about.

  • @AnotherAvaibleName

    @AnotherAvaibleName

    3 жыл бұрын

    Grandpa doesn't have all those years for no reason. The greatest tragedy is that us young people tend to ignore their wisdom.

  • @lsswappedcessna

    @lsswappedcessna

    3 жыл бұрын

    All us young people turn up our noses at the 'boomers' for their often seemingly backwards ways of thinking, but they have wisdom on things that we're clueless about.

  • @mikopiko

    @mikopiko

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AnotherAvaibleName YOU SAID IT

  • @thany3

    @thany3

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is true even in most of our lifetimes. Mobile phones used to be virtually indestructible (with normal use). And the screen was made from plastic, which scratched like a MF, but didn't crack.

  • @krzysztofczarnecki8238

    @krzysztofczarnecki8238

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's literally killing -two- -three- four birds with one stone for the manufacturers - while charging the same amount of money, using less material/lower rating components costs them less, and at the same time they last a shorter amount of time. This also allows a smaller enclosure, that is more appealing to customers, and that in turn helps further reduce lifespan by making the product heat up inside more, and making it less mechanically durable. Just look at every device with more than 1 transistor in it made in the last decade and a half - the trend is to make them thin and "pretty" and try to shove that into people's brains as "fashion", and use brittle and easily scratched materials, while cheaping out on everything inside.

  • @Jellyf0x
    @Jellyf0x3 жыл бұрын

    The thing I hate most about planned obsolescence is that it assumes we have endless resources. It's terrible for our planet.

  • @newyorthtimes4496

    @newyorthtimes4496

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sidemen AFTV Clips & More ehh, 3d printing still uses "resources."

  • @kinghassy334

    @kinghassy334

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its the same with fashion, cloths used to last much longer, now its more profitable to sell seasonal wear that has to be replaced every 3 months

  • @Batzik94

    @Batzik94

    3 жыл бұрын

    Completely agree and the exact same applies to capitalism

  • @Chris-mc2bq

    @Chris-mc2bq

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sidemen AFTV Clips & More I didn't know you could 3d print all the elements in electronics like gold colbalt and phosphorous lmao.

  • @EatMyShortsAU

    @EatMyShortsAU

    3 жыл бұрын

    True and how often do we can upgrade our electronics? So much, e-waste is created..

  • @Sam-fb8cy
    @Sam-fb8cy10 ай бұрын

    15:02 “how much you wanna bet the iphone 14 will have rounded edges” Aged like fine wine

  • @tjziegler8823

    @tjziegler8823

    Ай бұрын

    It doesnt tho

  • @gamerdomain6618

    @gamerdomain6618

    Ай бұрын

    @@tjziegler8823 You almost got the joke.

  • @iamtoolazytoeditmyprofile

    @iamtoolazytoeditmyprofile

    Ай бұрын

    @@gamerdomain6618well what is it?

  • @Immabeebzzzz

    @Immabeebzzzz

    Ай бұрын

    apple had to scrap their design real quick🤣

  • @MobiusVideo

    @MobiusVideo

    Ай бұрын

    @@gamerdomain6618What is the joke? I don’t get it.

  • @rafabonati7757
    @rafabonati775719 күн бұрын

    My parents bought a house in 1963 that was built in 1928 from the original owners. The front entrance had an unusually shaped light bulb. It must have been the original bulb from when the home was built. It was only turned on occasionally. When my Mom sold the house, we unscrewed that bulb and it’s installed in a closet at my sister’s home. It still works. It’s not continuously on of course. But that makes it even more special because turning it on and off weakens the tungsten more than keeping it on! I think the tungsten filament must be quite strong and thick. Yep, they don’t make things like they used to sure applies to this light bulb. 💡

  • @susanrabideau9089

    @susanrabideau9089

    19 күн бұрын

    I instantly thought of that lightbulb that you took when mom moved, haha!

  • @DAG_42
    @DAG_423 жыл бұрын

    As an electrical engineer, I can assure you... We are literally educated in school about how to design for the desired failure timeframe. It seems criminal

  • @ToroMoto

    @ToroMoto

    3 жыл бұрын

    Any more info on this? So you remember the textbook or course code? I'd love to do some more reading on this

  • @MigueART

    @MigueART

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ToroMoto I would like to read more on this too.

  • @mrsearaphim4077

    @mrsearaphim4077

    3 жыл бұрын

    Guess I'm lucky my teachers were vividly against this.

  • @instagib783

    @instagib783

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ToroMoto @miguelonas Start with the phrase 'Mean Time to Failure' or MTTF and go from there. IMO, the concept itself isn't nefarious but it can be used that way.

  • @Growzy101

    @Growzy101

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is unmoral and seed of corrupt. Humans don't deserve anything less than an a asteroid wipe.

  • @dasoulfoodbuffet
    @dasoulfoodbuffet3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine the trillions of tons of unnecessary garbage planned obsolescence has caused our planet, the poisoning of our rivers and air and soil... It's so backward and disgusting. 😞

  • @kristoffer3000

    @kristoffer3000

    3 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to capitalism!

  • @cello9877

    @cello9877

    3 жыл бұрын

    All for the love of money

  • @Diet0r

    @Diet0r

    3 жыл бұрын

    Imagin the trillions of dollars lanned obsolescence has caused our planet

  • @dextrodemon

    @dextrodemon

    3 жыл бұрын

    ah but you can make money moving the garbage around, so it's a trade off. that's why capitalism is so beloved and will def not lead to the death of the planet in one way or another

  • @sasper6623

    @sasper6623

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dextrodemon just moving it around... not getting rid of it or recycling it. recycling isnt profitable so thats why they dont actually do it. its a scam, only a few materials or plastics can be recycled to make profit, otherwise it doesnt happen.

  • @johnpearson492
    @johnpearson4925 күн бұрын

    My grandparents have a lightbulb in a sealed housing in their shower. They bought the house in 1965 and it was bult in 1946. They have never changed the bulb and it still works. Use it every time they use the shower.

  • @cthellis
    @cthellis8 ай бұрын

    I do believe Technology Connections just threw down a gauntlet here.

  • @v0ldy54

    @v0ldy54

    8 ай бұрын

    more like a pair of Havel's Gauntlets

  • @tomvandongen8075

    @tomvandongen8075

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@v0ldy54with a bit of STONE cold logic

  • @cancan-wq9un

    @cancan-wq9un

    7 ай бұрын

    He also said he thinks the incentive was to make profit, other stuff was just happy accidents.

  • @carlosdgutierrez6570

    @carlosdgutierrez6570

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@cancan-wq9unmeh, everything was a trade-off between efficiency, lifespan and price and lifespan is inversely proportional to efficiency if you keep your price constant, to increase both the price would have become too prohibitive to make the product viable as a mass consumer good. Everything have trade-offs in real life engineering, you can't have your cake and eat it at the same time.

  • @cancan-wq9un

    @cancan-wq9un

    7 ай бұрын

    @@carlosdgutierrez6570 Why not 1500 hours, then? You wouldn't lose brightness just as much, and they still get what they want. but no, 1000 hours was more profitable. And if apple can fool people to buy phones that last 2 years as "perfect" phones in a market there are far more better phones present, they could easily convince people dimmer lights are better with little effort. But they didnt. Because that is not how capitalism works.

  • @burnsblownglass2514
    @burnsblownglass25142 жыл бұрын

    A GM engineer once told me, "it's easy to make a car last forever, getting one to break down in 7 years is the trick"

  • @jameslangridge1674

    @jameslangridge1674

    2 жыл бұрын

    I aways thought it was getting one to break down the day after your warranty expires is the trick. 😁

  • @robertromero8692

    @robertromero8692

    2 жыл бұрын

    An example of why I will never buy a GM product. Hondas and Toyotas are more durable.

  • @burnsblownglass2514

    @burnsblownglass2514

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robertromero8692 Nissan and Volvo are my preferences

  • @thatkidkgosi

    @thatkidkgosi

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ohh my gosh. That explains alot

  • @effincasuals8877

    @effincasuals8877

    2 жыл бұрын

    But as Toyota has shown us,a lasting car,equals more sales.

  • @davidletasi3322
    @davidletasi33222 жыл бұрын

    My aunt moved into her family home in 1919 at age 14 and had a 1913 Edison light bulb on her second story stair well. She lived in the house untill her death in 2002. She replaced that bulb a year before her death and she gave it to me and I have kept it right up to writing this comment and the other day plugged it in to see if it's still works. Bright as ever! Going on 108 years old.

  • @xyz-pg3zd

    @xyz-pg3zd

    2 жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @netshaek

    @netshaek

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nobody else like the comment it’s at exactly 108 likes

  • @SrCremeify

    @SrCremeify

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@netshaek I was going to do it until i read ur comment hahahahah

  • @ericmcclelland7151

    @ericmcclelland7151

    2 жыл бұрын

    Someone already ruined it so +1 like for every extra year?

  • @2n974

    @2n974

    2 жыл бұрын

    That happened

  • @AudioFileZ
    @AudioFileZ3 ай бұрын

    I enjoyed your video. I used to believe a lot of things not the least of which is that products keep progressing both in technology and longevity. As a young man in the late seventies I began to doubt a lot of things not the least of which is that my very respected government told me a tale about Lee Harvey Oswald being a lone assassin. I noticed cars were not as durable in many ways and ever more difficult to actually repair. Same for appliances in the home. About light bulbs...I noticed the first iteration of CFL lightbulbs never lasted as claimed. Later, same with early LED bulbs. As for phones, I never had a replaceable battery model past the Samsung Galaxy 3 and as a result often dealt with battery issues making my mind up to replace before I wanted to actually do so. Now, at 64-years old I see that what you're video is about isn't conspiracy hearsay. It's part of the actual product specs we all buy. In my little corner of an industry, footwear retail, I've seen the continuous cheapening of products to allow higher GPMs because purchasers have to replace footwear quite often due to both decreased durability and fashion pressures. One segment that held on to durability a bit longer within footwear was the work segment of boots. Outside of small companies building niche boots all of the major makers "dumbed down" durability to a point it couldn't be missed. This continues. During the pandemic the longest lasting mass maker of American maker of US made work boots shut down their 2 plants in Carthage Missouri never to re-open those plants. It's probably not the maker you're thinking of and I won't mention names, but those boots lasted an average of five to seven years with one or two heel replacements and no full-sole replacement needed. And this is in the toughest environments. Small dealers around the country expressed horror, but because the latest corporate imagining of how to sell these products no longer wants to depend on independent small dealers it hardly made a ripple. After three years of not being able to get any of these boots to sell I found out they were going to reintroduce them (some with same look and stock numbers) as made in Cambodia models. I've yet to be able to get any of these to sell, but I know it won't be the same. The leather uppers will not be tanned to the same high standards. The heart of the boot, which is the sole. was made by the best US sole maker in NY ,the new ones, while retaining the look, will not be made of the same very tweaked PU raw material and exacting standards of the US made one. I predict these boots will last a third, at best, of the old ones which fits in with what your video reveals. And, the wholesale price is almost as much as the last ones this brand made in the Missouri plants insuring maximum gross profit margins unattainable, so the brand claims, if they continued to make the boots here. Footwear companies do not answer to their consumer and are ran by accountants. They answer to Wall Street and pure greed. I've been around long enough to remember when this wasn't the rule of the day. This makes me glad to be in the twilight of my career. Things are not being made better, smaller retailers are being kicked to the curb, the climate of both product and distribution has changed . I'm being marginalized before I can be wholly cancelled. I've made a decent life for my family as the third generation of a shoe business over one-hundred years old. But, you will see less and less of my kind every year...and, you'll pay more for footwear that lasts less and less. How is this good?

  • @user-we7ko6ze8u
    @user-we7ko6ze8u6 ай бұрын

    Sorry I have so recently learned of your channel. This topic will continue to be of interest. Asked Subaru of America to help pay for a repair to a ten year old Crosstrek, I had purchased July,14,2023. Dealership said this oil leak was bad, and that it was leaking on to the catalytic converter, a potential to start a fire. They recommend contacting Subaru of America for help, since I had no resources after the purchase to pay the $2353.00 repair to fix the dangerous leak. Subaru of America basically said, "Cars ware out, sorry you bought a used Subaru." I will have to save up for this repair. Dealership I purchased it from was so kind to refund $500.00 toward this repair.

  • @davidbrown4271

    @davidbrown4271

    29 күн бұрын

    Sorry it’s wear out

  • @sarahschulz7987
    @sarahschulz79872 жыл бұрын

    My parents recently got a new microwave and gave me their old one they got for their wedding - I'm 25 and warming up my leftovers in the same microwave my baby food was warmed in... pretty amazing. I would love if everything lasted forever. Planned obsolescence feels like such a waste of resources.

  • @Dimchastichni

    @Dimchastichni

    2 жыл бұрын

    but but, infinite growth! :)

  • @-hiro-5995

    @-hiro-5995

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s just a conspiracy, it’s impossible to hold cartels that court control so much today, the strategy does exist, apple has done it,

  • @thornblackwell5749

    @thornblackwell5749

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@-hiro-5995 Steve Jobs did it. Apple has sold its soul since then.

  • @jackr2287

    @jackr2287

    2 жыл бұрын

    A waste of time, ambition, and effort. But I wonder if it's a character of a downturn of civilizational spirit, when it occurs writ large.

  • @terrabiker

    @terrabiker

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah , i had to replace the 20yo microwave only bcs we got new power breakers that couldn't handle the peak load when turning on the MW. It didn't have a soft start...

  • @simarpreetsinghmamik
    @simarpreetsinghmamik3 жыл бұрын

    The saddest example is that of school textbooks, each new edition has the most negligible changes in content.

  • @simarpreetsinghmamik

    @simarpreetsinghmamik

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@yeager6882 Definitely. In one year Sue goes to buy 20 apples for $5, in another year it could be Joe, buying 25 apples for $10. It's hard to keep up.

  • @elmo4672

    @elmo4672

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@simarpreetsinghmamik These are straight-up factual statements.. it's best to use second-hand books.

  • @hubertstefaniak158

    @hubertstefaniak158

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@elmo4672 that's the point - You can't, because schools often require You to have a latest edition.

  • @RickyC0626

    @RickyC0626

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also the newest editions have less pirated copies, so it's less likely for the answer key to be available for students to use as reference

  • @alephkasai9384

    @alephkasai9384

    3 жыл бұрын

    In my country for primary and secondary schools there's a program to borrow the books from the students last year. The students last year give their books to the school and the newer students have these books handed to them. If you lose or destroy your book you do have to pay to replace them.

  • @jeromem9946
    @jeromem99466 ай бұрын

    Planned obsolescence is quite depressing, but always good to keep in mind. Thanks a lot for this video ! 🙏

  • @user-hf3dy9xc8x
    @user-hf3dy9xc8xАй бұрын

    I went full LED early about 10 years ago, and as you said, didn't expect to ever have to change them. But I have had to change some bulbs out twice already. And some of these were name brands (Philips, CREE), and other cheap brands performed about equally well. I suspect there's some planned obsolescence in LED bulbs, too. Regardless, their low power consumption and cooler temps make them great, but I wish they lasted longer.

  • @Brent-jj6qi

    @Brent-jj6qi

    5 күн бұрын

    Most LED bulbs are designed to cook themselves pretty quickly

  • @CryptoLorenzo
    @CryptoLorenzo2 жыл бұрын

    My mum had an oven that lasted 30 years, fully functioning right till the end. Then when she got a replacement, the technician told her that the company who manufactured them went broke because their ovens very rarely broke down. It's sad that we've gone from one extreme of excellent durability and reliability to planned obsolescence.

  • @Daemien21

    @Daemien21

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because we cant find or change an economic solution to this as a species

  • @DavidMishchenko

    @DavidMishchenko

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which company?

  • @gizzyguzzi

    @gizzyguzzi

    2 жыл бұрын

    how long have you had your car? I am driving a 25 y.o. car with 200k miles on it. Impossible 40 years ago (without a complete rebuild at least once)

  • @CryptoLorenzo

    @CryptoLorenzo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DavidMishchenko It was a company named St. George, here in Australia, which is now defunct. You will see a bank and rugby league team bearing the same name, but they're completely unrelated.

  • @CryptoLorenzo

    @CryptoLorenzo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gizzyguzzi My original comment relates to an old oven that lasted up to Jan 2020. However, my car is 7 years' old to date so too early to tell how long it'll last.

  • @engineeringlore3349
    @engineeringlore33493 жыл бұрын

    I studied Latin in high school, and there is a passage, in the Satyricon, in which Caesar is presented by a material that seems glass, as it is transparent, but when the artisan that presented it throws it on the ground and it does not break, instead he picks it up and works it back in the original shape, like it was plastic. In the story, Caesar asks the guy if someone else knows that secret, when he says no one does, Caesar has the man killed and the object destroyed in fear that gold would lose value. Guess the Man in the White Suit wasn’t the first story like this!

  • @alessiopani

    @alessiopani

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yess, in the dinner of Trimalchio ( Trimalchione)

  • @XmarkedSpot

    @XmarkedSpot

    3 жыл бұрын

    Name checks out

  • @epauletshark3793

    @epauletshark3793

    3 жыл бұрын

    I heard that it was with emperor tiberius.

  • @Cloud-dq1mr

    @Cloud-dq1mr

    3 жыл бұрын

    No idea if this is true but it sounds horrible. Moreso than his personm from the little i know about Caesar the one thing that always amazed me was always his forces, and especially the engineering feats of his forces. Like, people did this 2000 years ago, wtf? But considering your reply I guess he's the original "The Man", to be hated and scorned.

  • @khasab6124

    @khasab6124

    3 жыл бұрын

    interesting story. (small correction it seems it was Tiberius Caesar.) most claims are that it is fictitious. The Satyricon is fiction but who knows, once you've had everyone killed.....

  • @sr.cv.5450
    @sr.cv.54507 ай бұрын

    LED bulbs in my house break between 2 and 3 years after I start using them. It's exactly the case of planned obsolescence, not the everlasting light bulb you mention. And it's way easier achievable with all this electronics inside, then it was with ordinary bulbs.

  • @homemovelha4173

    @homemovelha4173

    Ай бұрын

    LED bulbs are Can last 50x longer than incandescent ones but due to planned obsolescence they last way less than incandescent ones

  • @jaimechristley
    @jaimechristley9 ай бұрын

    Incidentally, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT is a terrific film, one of the very best of 1951. Apart from the conceit about the indestructible textile, it's a great film about labor and class relations. The director was Alexander Mackendrick, whom many reading this will know from going on to direct THE LADYKILLERS and SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS. The "I kid you not" remark about its Best Screenplay nomination, not sure who that was intended for....

  • @FrostedCreations

    @FrostedCreations

    2 ай бұрын

    I also didn't understand that joke (if that's what it was supposed to be). Would be good if someone could explain

  • @MobiusVideo

    @MobiusVideo

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah, my ears also pricked up when he said the “I kid you not” comment. I don’t understand why he said that. It’s a fantastic film. Most things Alec Guinness starred in are great!

  • @ryanhogan4743
    @ryanhogan47433 жыл бұрын

    My 93yr old great Aunt just told me that her first refrigerator from late 1960's finally stopped working.

  • @davidanderson2357

    @davidanderson2357

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is it still under warranty? Haw haw.

  • @delanamanuel1451

    @delanamanuel1451

    3 жыл бұрын

    My husband's friend bought my grandma's fridge from the 50s after she died. It just needed new seals around the door.

  • @pascal2085

    @pascal2085

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think that newer fridges don't last as long not purely out of planned obsolence. Companies are forced by law to make the devices more and more efficient and this comes at a cost.

  • @vadipp

    @vadipp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably she just need to replace the thermostat or something. I bet the compressor motor is still good.

  • @lsswappedcessna

    @lsswappedcessna

    3 жыл бұрын

    Refurb the compressor or whatever is broken, PLEASE do not let her throw out the old fridge. It may just be a fridge, but it's a relic, too. A relic of a better time for the reliability of household appliances.

  • @mauritius5892
    @mauritius58923 жыл бұрын

    Planned obsolence has also a huge environmental impact. It is not sustainable to buy every year a new phone or a new car. Therefore I think that companies have a huge responsibility not to use planned obsolence but to offer more repair and upgrade services to customers.

  • @thezfunk

    @thezfunk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Europe addresses this by forcing the companies to take back end-of-life products and recycle them. Now, there is an incentive to not get them back thereby providing a reason to extend their life. It is always about changing motivations and incentives.

  • @Hotrob_J

    @Hotrob_J

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why are we set up so the survival of our species is reliant on companies being responsible and moral? A responsible and moral company is a company either out of business or bought by a bigger one and shut down.

  • @juniorvonclaire3576

    @juniorvonclaire3576

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, they don’t have a responsibility to “save the planet!” And we don’t have a right to most goods and services. Just be grateful and quit whining.

  • @kamrankazemi8646

    @kamrankazemi8646

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juniorvonclaire3576 Why are you defending people literally selling you bad products? How are you that brainwashed? Do you not know how to stand up for what’s right?

  • @predatoryanimal6397

    @predatoryanimal6397

    3 жыл бұрын

    totally agree consumerism and obsolete design are the worse thing that has happened to society and environment.

  • @ujona
    @ujona6 ай бұрын

    Yes, I definitely remember this from economic class back in high school...planned obsolescence. Thus, I take apart all my electronics if something was wrong and my engineering background helps.

  • @armoniqfields8016
    @armoniqfields80165 ай бұрын

    I got training on cell phone/laptop/flat tv repair. I have an eye to see parts designed to fail. It's an excellent business to get into. People will literally give you broken items before they go buy new 1's.

  • @Kpeters
    @Kpeters3 жыл бұрын

    As an industrial designer I can honestly say that’s one of the most frustrating aspects of the industry. One always wants to design a product with the best characteristics.

  • @sparkeyjones6261

    @sparkeyjones6261

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure it is. In your occupation you can identify and fix flaws in many designs that lead to reduced lifespan. It's really too bad most companies are no longer interested in selling a product designed with longevity in mind. But, I wonder how much of this is due to so many consumers basing their purchasing decisions mainly on cost? Our grandparent's generations were much different. They were willing to pay much higher prices for products that not only functioned better, but lasted longer.

  • @Alex-kh8zj

    @Alex-kh8zj

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sparkeyjones6261 The disposable income has gone down, it's not a mindset. It's not having the money to make big purchases.

  • @Kpeters

    @Kpeters

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sparkeyjones6261 that is also true. New and shiny for most consumers is more important than functional and long lasting. Even if the design is great. Look at the old Mercedes Benz from before the 90's. Great machines that with proper maintenance will outlast you. Can't say the same for newer cars. People used to keep they cars, washing machines, refrigerators for decades. And it's worse than turning your back on identifying flaws, it's actually designing something and then figuring out how to make it go bad. It's basically destroying your design.

  • @rubiconnn

    @rubiconnn

    3 жыл бұрын

    People are suckers. They'll eat up marketing and use it as brand loyalty instead of just relying on data and companies know this.

  • @patrickm1533

    @patrickm1533

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm also an industrial designer and I honestly haven't come across any projects that I would consider to have planned obsolescence. All components, especially small components, have a cycle life, nothing lasts forever. You can make things last longer but it usually comes at some other cost like money or size or performance, etc.; and at a certain point, the product no longer meets it's requirements and lasts far longer than it would become technologically obsolete. Generally speaking my clients would prefer the last impression of their product NOT to be it crapping out.

  • @rvallenduuk
    @rvallenduuk2 жыл бұрын

    You completely glossed over the biggest problem with this obsolescence: resources. The planet isn't infinite. If we keep producing cheap produces and replace them every two year we will run out of material at some point. Nevermind the amount of single-use plastic in the oceans.

  • @TheGaboom

    @TheGaboom

    2 жыл бұрын

    Depends how good our ability to recycle is; it's not like the resources are deleted from existence I imagine some generations from now, there'll be well established practices collecting those resources out of the oceans Broadly speaking though, I do agree. Since deliberate obsolescence expedites resource drain faster than necessary, making a large portion of the resource inaccessible without new recycling or refurbishing practices

  • @yomommashaus

    @yomommashaus

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheGaboom Ditto. There are more and more companies figuring out how to profit from recycling traditionally "unrecyclable" objects. The future is in efficient recycling, high quality products, powerfully efficient clean energy sources like fusion, and alternate materials such as in asteroids, to name a few.

  • @jengleheimerschmitt7941

    @jengleheimerschmitt7941

    2 жыл бұрын

    On the other hand, you completely gloss over the bigest problem with predictions of resource scarcity: historically resources overwhelmingly become less scarce and less expensive rather than more scarce -as use increases. Salt, food, coal, aluminum, and books are reasonably substantial examples. It's been a very long time since we've had a salt shortage. Unless you think we've hit peak-human-ingenuity already, I expect that trend will continue rather than reverse.

  • @yomommashaus

    @yomommashaus

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jengleheimerschmitt7941 I agree - human ingenuity is supreme really and even facing such hurdles as overpopulation, energy needs, food shortages, rare metal shortages, etc, I believe we are already working on solutions and will overcome.

  • @phasechange5053

    @phasechange5053

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes and people can talk about recycling all day but most of it will go into a landfill . its completely wasteful

  • @emanuelmatos5228
    @emanuelmatos5228Ай бұрын

    Excellent work, I really enjoyed this content and found this topic very interesting. The worst thing is that the actual human trend points to kill any possible '"thinking voice/mind" to keep us dreaming a finite farming game which we used to think is "human life". Thanks for this masterpiece.

  • @theresaivy7045
    @theresaivy7045Ай бұрын

    I love history and origins, pretty much the beginning of things and why. I knew nothing about your channel except that the title, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, was clever. Actual Conspiracies didn't sway me, not because I don't believe in conspiracies but I didn't know if it were true or just the rantings of a nutter. I clicked and I'm glad I did. I also subscribed because you backed up all your arguments with real facts. Good video.

  • @sazzadurrahmansakib1687
    @sazzadurrahmansakib16872 жыл бұрын

    >makes a bulb that lasts forever >sell it to everyone in the world >no one needs any bulb anymore >leaves

  • @dienosorpo

    @dienosorpo

    2 жыл бұрын

    We need a hero

  • @juanitome1327

    @juanitome1327

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dienosorpo we had one. He was named Nikola Tesla. He intended to give everyone free and wireless electricity forever. He had the technology, the science behind it but not the money. He was starved to death and chased down by bankers and other scientists with more capitalist intentions (Thomas Edison) aaaand he died mysteriously in a hotel room and all of his discoveries were “stolen” and well-kept under rocks to this day

  • @s1tes667

    @s1tes667

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@juanitome1327 he tried helping humanity while everyone helped themselves

  • @GamerGod_88

    @GamerGod_88

    2 жыл бұрын

    >Cover yourself in oil

  • @jungleballs5593

    @jungleballs5593

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@juanitome1327 it is actually proven that wireless transfer of electricity is incredibly inefficient and it is very difficult to make something completely free.

  • @badwolf4239
    @badwolf42393 жыл бұрын

    Slightly different than obsolescence, but when I was 13 or so, my neighbor (who lived about a mile away since I grew up on a farm) hired me to help him cut and load some old, dead oak trees to sell the wood. For those who don't know, wood is usually sold by the cord when dealing with large sales, which is a measure of volume (around 1,000 gallons, I think). So I started loading this wood into a trailer, and on the second day I was helping him, he stopped me and told me that I was loading it too well. I was being too efficient, packing the wood into the trailer too tightly and thus reducing his profit from the sale of the wood, since there was more wood per cord. He made me stop and instead load it loosely and less efficiently. A few days after that, I came up with a way to use his tractor to load the wood faster than either of us could by hand, and he fired me once he realized how well it worked. Really taught me a lot about the world.

  • @nelsblair2667

    @nelsblair2667

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don’t blame him for releasing unneeded laborers. I might blame him for shorting the customer. I don’t blame him, if he had just wanted you manual load times to be faster but used the packing efficiency argument to show his concern, without directly calling you slow.

  • @danieljensen2626

    @danieljensen2626

    3 жыл бұрын

    I mean you kinda did that to yourself if he was paying you to help and you showed him he could just use the tractor without needing you at all.

  • @ikocheratcr

    @ikocheratcr

    3 жыл бұрын

    You optimized yourself out. Welcome to the world. Happens when you automate your job too much, your employer finds that you are not needed any more, sadly that employer is short sighted, cause he can use you to automate more stuff instead.

  • @SeldomPooper

    @SeldomPooper

    3 жыл бұрын

    ha :D

  • @Anarchy421

    @Anarchy421

    3 жыл бұрын

    Never seen wood measured in gallons. Thanks for the laugh :D

  • @-Just_Justin-
    @-Just_Justin-6 ай бұрын

    As a service technician I can agree with planned obsolescence. Late 1990s and early 2000s vehicles were built with durability in mind where as vehicles from 2005 on up seem to have lesser quality components in them. Iirc I believe I read somewhere that dealerships would expect the average consumer to trade in around 100k miles for a new vehicle.

  • @MidnightGreen4649

    @MidnightGreen4649

    Ай бұрын

    I wish all engineering courses required students to train as service technicians for some type of machine or industry. People who think AI will do our jobs for us are short-sighted and downright lazy. Engineers who are okay with making products that are poorly designed should be ashamed of themselves. I plan to learn some mechanic-ing this year, as an engineering student I hope I will one day meet other engineers who give a damn and maybe follow my childhood dream of making cool things... I will say this though: for some classic sports cars, Nissan and Mazda seem to be making new OEM components for owners to keep their cars running. I hope that becomes a thing as it's getting harder to find critical components for some of these cars.

  • @-Just_Justin-

    @-Just_Justin-

    Ай бұрын

    @@MidnightGreen4649 I couldn't agree with you more. I can't say how many times I've seen a well designed part install or perform poorly. Some things seem like a good idea but in practicality it doesn't work as well. While technology has proved beneficial in many ways over the years it doesn't or will not replace genuine intuition or a deeper understanding of something. Computers only see inputs and outputs at its most simplest form. Having more people with a mindset like yours will make the automotive industry better if the corporate aspect rolls with it. Many things come into mind when making a part and mass cost is one of them.

  • @MidnightGreen4649

    @MidnightGreen4649

    Ай бұрын

    @@-Just_Justin- I think your reply has inspired me to talk to the engineering faculty at my college so that there can be more education and discussion about designing with an emphasis on the right to repair and from the perspective of not just the end user but also understanding technicians. We had several lectures by various engineering professors in my introductory courses. I don't see why we shouldn't also learn from mechanics, machinists, and repairmen. Having the students complete training as technicians might be a bit much, but I think it's possible to make it work. The goal, after all, is to shift the philosophy of engineering and product design to what it once was.

  • @-Just_Justin-

    @-Just_Justin-

    Ай бұрын

    @@MidnightGreen4649 that would be a monumental step into a more productive direction. If the technician doing the repair can understand the same concept as the engineers and vice versa, operations would become more uniform in a sense. Most of these things are now so divided that one department doesn't talk to another but one relies on another. Having a more direct form of communication during the development phase could ultimately save time and money.

  • @MidnightGreen4649

    @MidnightGreen4649

    Ай бұрын

    @@-Just_Justin- Indeed. as cheesy as it sounds, I just have a genuine love for the art.

  • @jebgoldcorn
    @jebgoldcorn4 күн бұрын

    Great video! A great follow up would be companies who have grown beyond integrated obsolescence and rent out products as services (like the carpet tile company Interface). The old way of designing products for landfill needs to be over. Can we get some examples of circular economy businesses? Congratulations on your excellent work on this channel!

  • @DrBeauHightower
    @DrBeauHightower3 жыл бұрын

    Damn this was super interesting. Great content

  • @JakeCorntaco

    @JakeCorntaco

    3 жыл бұрын

    Idk if you watch this guy regularly but he has GREAT content! If you like this kind of content, another great channel to watch is SmarterEveryDay!

  • @thebraindeadz5590

    @thebraindeadz5590

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JakeCorntaco k thanks

  • @MickaelBNeron

    @MickaelBNeron

    3 жыл бұрын

    You must be new here...

  • @eossoon

    @eossoon

    3 жыл бұрын

    Idk who needed to hear this, but this dude is not actually a physician aka medical doctor who holds the degree of DO or MD (in the US).

  • @caseyrayharris.esquire489

    @caseyrayharris.esquire489

    3 жыл бұрын

    Scared to reiterate factual information. I0Oh I'm sorry I thought this was America? -Randy. the two party system is so they can have their cake(war) and eat it too (Democrat who opposes War)- Eric Cartman. I shouldn't be afraid to make a nonviolent & or non slanderous statement. But I am and that is a clear look in the mirror, the American has now entered the beginning stage of job versus human population ratio. And everyone seems to have middle management Authority while most smart decent upstanding human beings that are smart and well-informed that can't complain because they can't compete with the dollars of the corrupted faction within our government. and people are so focused on their jobs and tired when they get back and stressed for trying to provide that they don't really cared about politics. But I guess like alcoholics our democracy had to hit rock bottom first. I mean we already have a fully automated Greenhouse for growing crops using Hydroponics Robotics and 3D lasers where they can plant the seed germinated transfer feed it and water it with exact nutrients which would eliminate pesticide runoff and River pollution.using less land, tapping into the water table and the indoor climate controlled environment would allow 365 24/7 groom farming conditions and we also wouldn't have so much wasted water pumped up from the water table, and when the water table get slower there's less water pressure on those Caverns and when we pump out so much the fissures and cracks in Earth's crust causing earthquakes and for earthquake-prone environments that's not a good thing. I learned all that from Reddit and published articles that I was interested in and one side is collected all this information I stepped back and Sean as a whole and you didn't like what I see and now I find out that the original creator of Reddit was suspiciously murdered in a case I feel more compelling than the Jeffrey Epstein case which just goes to show you their killing their own depraved people on the inside and they're killing everybody else to. all he was trying to do was make a website where people can access information that's in the public domain and even have it alleged aspirations to run for president and he was someone had an office at Harvard and two other schools when he was suicided according to both his parents his wife and brothers. If you can wrap your head around the Epstein cover up then you can certainly see why corporations who have been people in the eyes of the law since 15 or 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, I don't see how they can act as decent upstanding citizens when they're legally bound to make the highest profit for their shareholders. Putting a corporation's best interest above the interest in self preservation of the human race. they likely killed this guy and if I'm found dead they likely killed me too for saying this and telling people around the internet something that they might not have had time or been home to watch the news on the day of that particular pivotal White Collar privileged white male children to disagree with political policy was murdered for trying to somewhere in Europe that can plant the seed germinated even moderate in existence or reference This is getting really real. don't know what conspiracies are false, which ones have been proven to be true yet remain out of the public eye like the Gulf of Tonkin, Iran-Contra, Inkay Ultra, The cia's Proposal 2 come in false flag terrorist attacks and blame it on Fidel Castro in order to go to Garner Sympathy for the invasion of Cuba and the military industrial complex. I just know that we've been in two record-breaking long Wars, 18 and 20 years , neither of which us to be there. And I just want to say a quick prayer for all the service members who have served, particularly for those who have been mistreated. And I'm sure that's a lot of you. my American countrymen and the find folks who serve on Military that I'm so proud of. May God have mercy on us all. references is getting really real. don't know what conspiracies are false, which ones have been proven to be true yet remain out of the public eye like the Gulf of Tonkin, Iran-Contra, Inkay Ultra, The cia's Proposal 2 come in false flag terrorist attacks and blame it on Fidel Castro in order to go to Garner Sympathy for the invasion of Cuba and the military industrial complex. I just know that we've been in two record-breaking long Wars, 18 and 20 years , neither of which us to be there. And I just want to say a quick prayer for all the service members who have served, particularly for those who have been mistreated. And I'm sure that's a lot of you. my American countrymen and the find folks who serve on Military that I'm so proud of. May God have mercy on us all.

  • @richiemandina5305
    @richiemandina53052 жыл бұрын

    When I first started learning/working as a mechanic I asked my boss, after getting very frustrated trying to remove rusted brake lines, why the car manufacturers wouldn't just use metals that were stronger and wouldn't rust and corrode so easily. He goes " do you like having a job?" And even knowing he had a point, it still really annoyed me that things are basically designed to fail. especially when you consider how ridiculously expensive cars are nowadays. If I'm spending 30, 40 or 50 grand on something.....it should damn well be built to last me the rest of my life.

  • @johnpresler7537

    @johnpresler7537

    2 жыл бұрын

    you would be damn well lucky if it outlasts the payments

  • @richiemandina5305

    @richiemandina5305

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnpresler7537 so sad, isn't it?

  • @wesrogers7630

    @wesrogers7630

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@richiemandina5305 actually it isn't. It is the way our world works for now. I do agree it should be changed, but it can't be changed overnight. Plus as stated earlier, the cost of the upgrade would be extremely high. This needs to be addressed and slowly upgraded. Imagine if we went to self driving semi's by next year. Over 3 million would be out of work with no real skill set to switch to another job bringing in the same income. But of course, we can't even talk about it because it means your either a leftist or a rightist. Then the name calling starts and boom, nothing gets talked about. Capitalism did bring more people out of extreme poverty than any other system previous to it, but it's time is coming to and end. It has been distorted and manipulated to serve the few. It was the first system that allowed almost anyone to climb the social ladder to wealth. Yes much harder for some, but still happened. Here is the problem as I see it. You can't have equality of outcome. People won't stand for it, and others will take advantage of it. Maybe a universal income with basic needs met to live a meager life, but health and physical needs are met. Who knows.

  • @richiemandina5305

    @richiemandina5305

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wesrogers7630 Yes capitalism does have it's flaws. But I disagree that it's time has come to an end. What I think would be ideal is somehow (nearly impossible, I know) establishing a government that doesn't allow the corruption of politicians helping out their buddies in big business, a system that ACTUALLY keeps things fair. And no, you won't ever have equality of outcome because it isn't possible, unless at some point in the future everyone that is born is cloned to be an exact replica of everyone else. Some people are more ambitious, some people are far more superior or inferior in athletic ability, some people would rather just sit around and have society support them. It'll never be perfect for everyone. I think the best you can plan to achieve is equal opportunity. If we can get that right I think civilization can be a beautiful thing, generally speaking. But I think it's pretty obvious, based on history, that anybody in a position of power claiming they're going to make it all better via outcome equality is only trying to increase their own wealth and power at the expense of our wealth and freedom.

  • @evanvokes1694

    @evanvokes1694

    2 жыл бұрын

    not to worry, he is so wrong but people love to hear it. The LED he used as an example has its life not limited by the germanium LED but by the electrolytic capacitor and some are terrible. For his light example, you would have to wire your house for constant voltage 5V DC to get a longer life and that would be determined by the operation amplifier component but what builder would ever installs such a system

  • @takeoffwithmeburner
    @takeoffwithmeburnerАй бұрын

    this is one of my favorite videos of all time. not one of my favorite veritasium videos but one of my favorite videos ever.

  • @SnehaBag
    @SnehaBag7 ай бұрын

    Pretty knowledgeable and significant video it is! Thank you Veritasium 💜❤️

  • @mjklein
    @mjklein2 жыл бұрын

    At recording studio where I worked in my 30s, the chief engineer who was in his 60s told me that when he was a kid, his mother told him never throw away a burned out light bulb. When asked why, he said his mother told him they could take it back to Edison and get a replacement one for free. They were never supposed to burn out and a burned out light bulb was considered defective.

  • @ASP42069

    @ASP42069

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s awesome!

  • @tedcole9936

    @tedcole9936

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s quite interesting. When I was a kid, in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s I remember that indeed we could take burnt out light bulbs back to “Edison” for free replacement, too. In my case, “Edison” meant the Detroit Edison Company… which was the electricity utility company. However, I was told a different reason… that since Edison was selling the electricity to you, giving out free light bulbs encouraged people to install more lights, I.e. more Kilowatts used per customer. My grandfather was an engineer at Detroit Edison, but unfortunately I don’t know if that rationale came from him or if it was just something my parents surmised.. but it definitely was true, I remember where the local Edison office was in our town, and I remember taking bulbs there for free replacements.

  • @terrywilder9

    @terrywilder9

    2 жыл бұрын

    In Michigan Detroit Edison had a policy where you could save your burnt out lightbulbs and return them for free replacement. At one point to due to legal rangling they had to move the place where you returned them out of state to Toledo Ohio. It was in the interest of the Utilities that the light bulbs lasted as long as possible and they required the bulb manufacturers, GE, Westinghouse, Sylvania and Phillip's to meet higher standards and supply them with bulbs that lasted longer. Then a party store owner sued Detroit Edison to stop this practice alleging that it was effecting his lightbulb sales. There was an out roar towards this party store owner, who later admitted a lawyer put him up to suing! Btw I still have many of these replacement bulbs. They last 5 to 10 years as compared to 10 to 24 months!

  • @FigmentSALabel

    @FigmentSALabel

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tedcole9936 Good story.

  • @hney421

    @hney421

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Thats awesome

  • @abnermascarenhas3615
    @abnermascarenhas36153 жыл бұрын

    The worst part of planned obsolescence is that it affects the environment negatively ....waste produced by us would be far less if it wasn't for this stupid money making strategy

  • @vlr7368

    @vlr7368

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, this.

  • @Ktulu789

    @Ktulu789

    3 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly, newer products are marketed as "more efficient" also.

  • @maasbekooy901

    @maasbekooy901

    3 жыл бұрын

    I really hope more people are gonna see this trough. I think it's really unhealthy to consume so much. Especially with cloths but also with electronics and all kind of other stuff. I never knew but apparently there are people out there who even buy new cutlery and plates every season to "stay in fashion"

  • @kattenelvis1778

    @kattenelvis1778

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly! If it wasn't for capitalism and planned obsolecence we could live sustainably.

  • @jphzazueta

    @jphzazueta

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know. That's the first thing that comes to my mind.

  • @monkeynumbernine
    @monkeynumbernine5 ай бұрын

    I have one of those lightbulbs, I've had it since I was about 10 years old...my grandfather gave it to me and told me it would never fail. That was more than 40 years ago. It was old when he acquired it.

  • @koolway
    @koolwayАй бұрын

    I have 9 LED bulbs on my kitchen ceiling that I replaced with LED when I moved in few years ago. Roughly every 2-3 years (according to amazon order date), they all die almost simultaniously (or get really dimmed) one after the other and have to replace them all. On the box they're rated for 1500 On-Off cycles.... on-off ~2 times a day, ~700 cycles per year... If there's no counter within the bulb, that's pretty impressive to be that accurate !

  • @miketrissel5494

    @miketrissel5494

    Ай бұрын

    They did the same to LED bulbs as they did to incandescent in 2015, if you got an early one, it' still works, after that, they put a component in it as a countdown timer. - Sorry. You can still make your own though ... Open it up, and replace it with an LED and a resistor, but be quick - it will be part of the LED's soon, if not already

  • @anonymouscausethatshowirol828
    @anonymouscausethatshowirol828 Жыл бұрын

    All of this neglects one of the worst parts of planned obsolescence: the overwhelming waste. We don’t have infinite resources, and even when we recycle the old models and items, we still produce emissions and non-recyclable components. Planned obsolescence only further exaggerates resource depletion and pollution

  • @cringe5393

    @cringe5393

    Жыл бұрын

    thas just how boomers do it back in the day

  • @k-ozdragon

    @k-ozdragon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cringe5393 Most items built in the boomer generation were built to last. Consumers of that era bought items they thought would last a lifetime, & almost always repaired them rather than replace them. Large scale consumerism really began in the 80s, & rapidly accelerated into the modern era. You could hardly get a boomer to buy something they would replace the very next year. However, Gen X, millennials, & Gen Z all look forward to replacing still new items with even newer versions. Owning the latest & greatest thing became the new goal, rather than actual usefulness. Even the thought that an item would be "collectible" didn't begin until the late 80s. It's why stuff from the 80s onward isn't worth hardly anything, while items from the 40s had value as antiques during the 80s. People back then didn't "collect" things, they actually used them.

  • @This_is_my_spout

    @This_is_my_spout

    Жыл бұрын

    @@k-ozdragon Did you not watch the video?

  • @k-ozdragon

    @k-ozdragon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@This_is_my_spout I did. So lightbulbs were made to be less effective, which ended in the 30s. When did ipod & most consumer goods begin to widely make their stuff so it couldn't be repaired? Did people in the era from 1900-1985 buy things just because they were collectible?

  • @k-ozdragon

    @k-ozdragon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tobytoxd People didn't sell their cars just to buy a new model because the color changed. Not like consumers today would buy a the same exact phone that they already own because the "newer" one is pink. Automotive paint just gained a competitive edge over the other makers to sell more cars. Henry Ford painted cars black because it was the only paint at the time that didn't change color over time & dried quickly. Car makers literally painted cars with paint made from fish scale pigment. Something the average person couldn't afford. It has zero to do with planned obsolescence. As far as fashion goes, when has that ever not changed? Clothing always evolved since it was invented. The only difference is more people can afford clothing. Find an era in history where those who could afford clothing weren't looking for something new & unique to wear. Good luck. Both of these things are market forces involved in every purchase ever made in history by consumers. If GM made a car that would break on purpose, & was constructed so the consumer couldn't repair it, you might have a point. The light bulb is a glaring example of that. However, the practice of replacing things that don't need replacing, buying purely to say that you own the latest version, or designing things with the intention of them breaking, is a far more modern phenomenon.

  • @JavierBonillaC
    @JavierBonillaC2 ай бұрын

    This is probably tne best video I've seen ever since KZread was created.

  • @urmumscow3206

    @urmumscow3206

    Ай бұрын

    watch technology connections video on the same topic buster. he doesn't mention the fact the bulb in the firehouse isn't even a functioning light, yeah its got a warm glow but good luck even seeing your dick if that was the only light source you had in your house

  • @pabloherrmann724
    @pabloherrmann724Ай бұрын

    As my prof used to say "only an engineer can build a bridge that just barely holds up"

  • @viridianloom
    @viridianloom2 жыл бұрын

    It seems like planned obsolescence also snuffs out innovation. Like, we could be reaching the end of the road on certain technologies and ask "ok, what's next?" But instead we're keeping ourselves in limbo.

  • @anonwithamnesia

    @anonwithamnesia

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what’s happening with cars, homes, machinery. Just because of JoBs

  • @Gener1KGaming

    @Gener1KGaming

    2 жыл бұрын

    You've just described the entire oil industry

  • @romansenger2322

    @romansenger2322

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thats because most people dont want to adapt and change themselves. They will vote against change. Literally happening right now with the transistion to EVs.

  • @stockloc

    @stockloc

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@romansenger2322 In many ways, I feel as though EV's aren't going to really improve anything in terms of how much resources we're using up. I feel like we need to figure out how to live our lives without having to need cars. Japan does this well.

  • @romansenger2322

    @romansenger2322

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stockloc of course they do. Just look up "EV vs ICE what pollutes more" here on youtube to get an idea how bad ICEs are. But I get your point. Mobility will never be good for the environment. Its always about the question how to make it less damaging for the environment.

  • @DESTRUCTIONKATCHUP
    @DESTRUCTIONKATCHUP3 жыл бұрын

    The phrase “They don’t make’m like they used to” exists for a reason.

  • @johnysmrz

    @johnysmrz

    3 жыл бұрын

    And that reason is selective memory bias. People simply tend to remember good things.

  • @NotMe-ej9yz

    @NotMe-ej9yz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johnysmrz there can be many reasons/causes for a single event, you're both right

  • @YusuffYT

    @YusuffYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johnysmrz that's why we write and record history, because our minds will forget most bad things

  • @electronresonator8882

    @electronresonator8882

    3 жыл бұрын

    why should they? they want more money and people want more jobs

  • @YusuffYT

    @YusuffYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @ᴄᴏᴠᴏɪᴅ • Actually, it is related to the topic, we tend to remember the good things from our past but forget about the bad ones (being the good things in this case, more durable products)

  • @user-qz3oi9qc2j
    @user-qz3oi9qc2jАй бұрын

    Planned obsolescence is quite depressing, but always good to keep in mind. Thanks a lot for this video !

  • @jaded9087
    @jaded908710 ай бұрын

    Want to hear some dirt on Ford Australia? In the late 50s, 60s to the earily 80s my grandfather was one of the head engines for ford Australia at the broadmeadows plant . He was one of the head engines at the geelong plant prior but he was a world class triple degree and had a masters in automotive, aironotical and maratine in engineering but was a immigrant so he had to climb ladders here to be recognized and paid the same as anywhere else in the world so they offered him a massive promotion if he relocated to set up the new broadmeadows plant as he was making noise about actually leaving Australia as there is some bigger baggage there too and ford was not a staying point, ford was part of the problem but there was bigger things saying " lets move to New Zealand ". Moving to NZ was on the cards twice from the moment he stepped off the ship to get here and untill he got promoted and paid properly. They sweeten the deal to have him stay as they even built and gave him a brand new house 5 mins down the road from the new work site, not just one that belongs to ford he lived rent free in while working for fords , it was put in his name paid in full on a yes from him and shifting in . Part if him wanting to leave was to give my nan and their kids a better life that Australia did not want to give them.... yeah BIG baggage!❤💛🖤 He would never drive a ford even if they gave him one ... as they did every few years, he sold quite a few brand new cars as soon as he got them and drove that same Pontiac for my all of my living memory untill his death in his 80s , in the late 90s, 30 years + and it was mint! His reason for wanting to leave fords again was that now part of his job was to find ways to make cars fail with " Australias first disposable car, the all new 1980s XD falcon" , they ran the body shape over a few years including all the reason why your going to want to get rid of your car. When they where designing the body , they where throwing shells in to the sea back in geelong to see how long will take to rust out structural parts and cosmetic looks . They did not rust out fast enough due to fords grand plan so they scraped all the already made bodies that were ready to be fitted out to be released as the XD " fords new falcon body shape " this thing was the boxest thing that had been put on the road for a long time other than volvos but they had dips in key places where water would not run off naturally in the development to insure your sills will rust out in not time just to name 1 area. All sleek lines where done away with to make it the new car for a new era. The rust bucket of future! Well as these things did not rust fast enough in the bloody sea, it was back to the drawing board , they had to find poorer quality metals and other materials to make them out of so these cars would be tired old rust buckets in no time . They even employed these ideas with items that the layman that knew nothing about cars can see things will brake that you could not ignore like the door handles where made to snap off in your hand . They nailed that one as it became the running joke at any owner of this car, did they had 4 spares in the boot! Everything about this car was made to be at the wreckers with no resale value as stock, just kept up with standard servicing in less that 7 years. DEAD! They did what they where planing to do . Make people that did not care about the next new look still have to buy new cars as every part of this car was made with a expiry date and you would have no choice but to buy a BRAND-NEW CAR or toss lots of money in to genuine after market parts and work done only at ford deallerships while still in warrenty , more cash for ford $$$! because the car you only just paid off the 5 year loan on and the warranty had just ran out was already starting to die its big death or at least not pass road worthy any more without you personally paying for rust to be cut out and mechanics to convert your cars motor and running gear to a more older , relyable modles, this thing leajed like a sive everywhere frome the door rubbers to the oil pain but you could not do anything about it as a permanent fix while under warrenty... no , no , no! That would void the warranty. Your modifying the car ! Plus you never drove anywhere without already having brought several spare new door handles... lol . This car actually broke my grandfather's heart and sprit as he was a world class engineer that had cintracts all over the world befor the war and took grate pride in his work, never wanting to be the man that made grabage and sighing off on finding new ways to make this car fail was totally against the man he was . So yeah.... fords XD series was Australias first disposable car , purposes built to die by design and after its release my grandfather took earily retirement from fords with a hefty bonus pay out for .. who knows why ?!? Hush money ?... they wanted to give him a new car ..., lol . Nope , he did not take it and asked for the cash instead on top of any long service or leave owing not long after this car was released and went to work at a small sized air strip he had worked at untill retirement as a engineer , not in a suite but back on the tools there because he never wanted to be involved in such dodgy dealings again . He took great pride in his work and this corner cutting , make the plane fall out of the sky so they buy a new one was never going to be a thing he had to be pushed in to a corner to do by the higher ups at ford Australia ever again. After retirment , 2 years in he was so bored he went and done a degree in social work. Maybe he needed to pay back some karma points after his years with fords? That would be him all over . RIP RVSb ?

  • @davidbrown4271

    @davidbrown4271

    29 күн бұрын

    Sweetened the deal

  • @0ned
    @0ned3 жыл бұрын

    Planned obsolescence joke A woman wrote to a refrigerator manufacturer, thanking them for a fridge that had lasted twenty years without fail. The company offered to send one of their design engineers to inspect it and the lady agreed. When he got there, she asked, "you want to make sure all your products are made to this higher standard?" He said, "No! They want me to make sure we never make one that lasts this long ever again, or else no one would ever need buy a new one!" That was an old joke when I heard it forty years ago!

  • @Facistznik

    @Facistznik

    3 жыл бұрын

    This joke is too resilient and is cutting into joke manufacturers' profits. They should make jokes with more dated references and slang that make them age worse.

  • @Patrick-zr8tv

    @Patrick-zr8tv

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Facistznik brilliant. Now comedians will make billions.

  • @GetFunnied

    @GetFunnied

    3 жыл бұрын

    you just wanted to say you were born in 1935

  • @KalRandom

    @KalRandom

    3 жыл бұрын

    My grandmother has a GE frige that still works fine, that's over 50 years old.

  • @fmaz1952

    @fmaz1952

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can we stop pretending VPN services are "more secure"? Rare are the websites that are not encrypted with TLS certificates. Encrypting it again is not meaningfully more secure. VPN hides your IP and makes you harder to track. That great to circunvent geo locked content and reduce geo targeted content, but has little to do with your security. If anything if makes it harder for your online banking plateform from recognizing your regular connexion pattern, which I would argue makes your ban account LESS secure to use if you connect to it using a VPN.

  • @SirSpartAfterDark
    @SirSpartAfterDark3 жыл бұрын

    "Good products are bad for the economy" is something I never thought I would hear.

  • @tyapca7

    @tyapca7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Neither did I, although I knew it ;-) Economy is about psychology, not technology.

  • @EclecticBuddha

    @EclecticBuddha

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just another way to say that broken windows are good for the economy. That's Paul krugman levels of stupid.

  • @uhohhotdog

    @uhohhotdog

    3 жыл бұрын

    They’re great for the economy. They’re bad for profits

  • @actsnfacts

    @actsnfacts

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would put it differently: "The western capitalist post industrial revolution paradigm is bad for good products" And no, I am not sugesting what ever would be better than that. I wish I knew.

  • @nowonmetube

    @nowonmetube

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's why the system must change

  • @user-bt5ns2nc9x
    @user-bt5ns2nc9x11 күн бұрын

    Watching this video with my iPhone 7 almost 10 years old. And it still working fine. Sometimes it’s about people behaviour, not planned obsolescence.

  • @FredoCorleone
    @FredoCorleoneАй бұрын

    Formally electronics engineer here, worked on redox probes in pools treatment industry and I tell you we designed those probes to last just as much before replacement (few months). The CEO explicitly told me it was to make profit.

  • @bunningssnag4187

    @bunningssnag4187

    Ай бұрын

    It’s a very interesting problem, is growing a company a bad thing, what happens if we make things last forever, will you be able to pay for your next meal or pay for the roof over your head? I believe greed is fundamentally wired into us. It’s such a hot topic and I can’t even begin to think how we can combat it because at the end of the day everyone wants to be successful and wants to build up their company and who has the right to tell them that they should run there company into the ground because it’s morally right when they worked there ass off to get there. Who knows maybe where looking at this in the wrong way. I have no data on this and it’s purely my opinion.

  • @cookiecrumbler2345
    @cookiecrumbler23452 жыл бұрын

    it took me a while to realize that this video is LITERALLY EXPLAINING WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS

  • @codehardr1209

    @codehardr1209

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes we can and we have. Every time when I look at some new phone I ask myself if my current one can do 95% of the new one. If it can, then why spend the money? Same with computers or any gadget. I use galaxy s8 and I'm happy with it, It can play music, take pictures, play games, run apps, and even can fit into pocket. Why should I buy a new one? Same with a computer. Have a macbook from about the same time I bought my s8. Great screen, fast enough for work, editing pictures, playing movies, browsing web. What else can a new laptop do that one from 4 or 5 years ago can't? There was a time when computers was so slow that every two years it was worth the upgrade, but now you can do basically anything on any computer. Only if you are a professional that needs power for a specific software, like 3d rendering, only then you might get a value from an upgrade. I like how companies tries to brainwash you that their new product is 10% faster, even though practically it makes no difference. No one should care if you can render your 20 minutes video 2 minutes faster. No one sits and looks and the screen while it's rendering something. tldr; don't be a brainless sheep and think about what you actually need and not about what you want and you will realize that the nice things are all around you.

  • @ileanaprofeanu7626

    @ileanaprofeanu7626

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same happened to me haha

  • @cookiecrumbler2345

    @cookiecrumbler2345

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@codehardr1209 i understand that but you get what i was saying

  • @ylstorage7085

    @ylstorage7085

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Blame China! ...yep, that should do it"

  • @zenokarlsbach4292

    @zenokarlsbach4292

    2 жыл бұрын

    @im300kmh but today's light bulbs are pretty resistent.

  • @broli123
    @broli1233 жыл бұрын

    Shout out to Louis Rossmann and his efforts towards right to repair.

  • @jcornscorndog941

    @jcornscorndog941

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @Absquatulationist

    @Absquatulationist

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed

  • @marcasking5786

    @marcasking5786

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah

  • @giancarlomartini2133

    @giancarlomartini2133

    3 жыл бұрын

    For sure!

  • @hacademicabel

    @hacademicabel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen to that.

  • @cheeseisgreat24
    @cheeseisgreat243 ай бұрын

    TBH several years after this video I feel like it’s always worth coming back to. We as a society need to figure out a way to design and build things which not only last for as long as possible, but also to make companies who dedicate themselves to making these products sustainable. I think one of the biggest things is stopping the requirement of the pursuit of infinite growth by shareholders.

  • @FrostedCreations

    @FrostedCreations

    2 ай бұрын

    Capitalism is just fundamentally incompatible with responsible use of resources, because it pursues short term goals. I don't think capitalism is all bad but as a society we need accept that we can't have our cake and eat it.

  • @Zimmsters
    @Zimmsters8 ай бұрын

    In 2008 for Christmas I bought two 8gb iPod nano 3rd gen (fat iPod). For some reason both still work just fine, in spite of dents and scratches and both hold about 12-15 hours of play.

  • @1234567895182
    @12345678951823 жыл бұрын

    How are we meant to reduce waste and move forward if so many companies models are literally, "let's make this stuff turn into garbage as quick as possible"

  • @Nina9Robes

    @Nina9Robes

    3 жыл бұрын

    The other end to this is the fact that a lot of these companies will offer discounts on purchases of new products in exchange for the old items. They make a sale at a small loss for the discount, but in return they get the old items from you that they can reuse and repurpose. Our resources are finite.. this is the only way that I could see one justifying planned obsolescence. I still don't like it tho. 😒

  • @alwaystired1

    @alwaystired1

    3 жыл бұрын

    youre dead on, pollution is primarily an issues with mega corps, not your average person. but they're great at shifting the blame onto straws ffs

  • @Miranox2

    @Miranox2

    3 жыл бұрын

    It will not happen until they are *forced* to change, either by us or by the environment.

  • @Miranox2

    @Miranox2

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alwaystired1 This is why public recycling is a sham. Over 90% of what you put in recycling ends up in a garbage dump anyway, but you are asked to recycle so that blame is shifted away from corporations.

  • @Belgrythaz
    @Belgrythaz3 жыл бұрын

    It is actually outrageous that planned obsolescence isn't discussed more. It is definitely one of the main issues we need to solve in order to save our planet.

  • @umbium

    @umbium

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good luck trying to change the wealthy 1% minds. I bet we will head towards "pay your climatic survival tools" instead of "stop climate change". Unless everyone stops asking their neighbours to do stupid behavipural changes and star demanding the governments and companies

  • @Ben-rz9cf

    @Ben-rz9cf

    3 жыл бұрын

    And they also worked out its actually a select few criminal groups even in the world that are responsible for like 90% of the worlds spam emails so if we just got interpol to crack down on them once and for all we could end both a nuisance that has plagued the world since the internet began and also take a chunk out of the global carbon footprint

  • @asafoster7954

    @asafoster7954

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@umbium eat the rich ?

  • @TeKaMOTO

    @TeKaMOTO

    3 жыл бұрын

    In George Carlin's words, "The planet is fine, the _people_ are fucked!"

  • @Guessagainkk

    @Guessagainkk

    3 жыл бұрын

    We are living a capitalistic world

  • @ernestoalayon469
    @ernestoalayon46925 күн бұрын

    Thank you for your great work Lex! i could see or imagine how you were both a bit bored and delighted at the same time with this personage. Is so good to approach the political division with honest work like yours. Love you guys! I now see Tucker in a more understanding perspective. Keep up the good work. Cheers!

  • @jacobbell1503
    @jacobbell15037 ай бұрын

    Thank you for bringing this to peoples attention. The poor are a huge victim of this greed.

  • @gregorycarlson6445
    @gregorycarlson64453 жыл бұрын

    In my engineering college, I had some professors who told the story of the old Bridgeport milling machines. They were built so sturdy and reliable that many still work perfectly today almost 80 years later. The machine never broke down or needed to be replaced, so the company started running out of paying customers. The intended takeaway from this story was to emphasize supposed importance of planned obsolescence, but that conclusion always bothered me. I saw a triumph of engineering and yet it was framed as a failure because someone couldn't make more money off of it.

  • @alexdavila1356

    @alexdavila1356

    3 жыл бұрын

    planned obsolesce is just a crutch for a bad business model. It is never a good thing when a competitor can offer your product that lasts on top of a differing business model that extends profits.

  • @dennisgonzales9521

    @dennisgonzales9521

    3 жыл бұрын

    Completely agree

  • @narsimhas1360

    @narsimhas1360

    3 жыл бұрын

    @מחמד חנזיר automation will change this dynamic though, otherwise I too support planned obsolescence

  • @danmerillat

    @danmerillat

    3 жыл бұрын

    @מחמד חנזיר by abandoning capitalism in favor of a system that isn't as ludicrously shortsighted.

  • @michaelkeaton5394

    @michaelkeaton5394

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is how people should think

  • @Alyenbird
    @Alyenbird2 жыл бұрын

    My most recent experience with planned obsolescence: Most laptops typically can be unscrewed at the bottom and opened up. It is necessary to do this every few months to blow the dust and hair out of your computer fan with some compressed air- especially if you have pets. If you don't ever clean that dust and hair out, the fan slowly gets clogged up, ceases to work properly, and your computer can become dangerously hot. A lot of people are unaware that this maintenance needs to be done at all- which is a win for the company that sold the computer when it overheats and breaks. However, apparently some computer manufacturers don't even want those who know they need to clean their laptops to clean them. A relative of mine recently noticed that her laptop was overheating and that the fan is clogged. So she turned it over to unscrew it and clean it out. There were no screw holes. She called the professionals, and the professionals told her that model of laptop could not be cleaned. It was *glued* together rather than screwed. From now on anytime my family goes laptop shopping, we will be checking the bottom for screws!

  • @ryanl3423

    @ryanl3423

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haven't seen a fan clog in a decade+ but the modern version is poor quality thermal paste (often under cpu "lid" itself) or fan bearings and capacitors failing in the 3-10 year mark. If enterprise-use computers are an option they're better for this due to higher standards and longer customer memories.

  • @theinceptor3672

    @theinceptor3672

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ryanl3423 yea man. I have a dell laptop from 10 years ago. And i have just recently open it up and there weren't much dust. And i really hate the conpanies who solders everything on the motherboard. It is just so expensive to replace

  • @jordanl.8509

    @jordanl.8509

    2 жыл бұрын

    *cough* Apple *cough*

  • @gumfrogCH

    @gumfrogCH

    2 жыл бұрын

    Smart Phones is a better example. FairPhone is trying to combat that, but im not sure how honest their are or if its just another marketing tactic. The name of the problem is called Capitalism. I'm not sure why not more people can understand this...

  • @shadesoftime

    @shadesoftime

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gumfrogCH * Lenin gets up from his grave *

  • @TheGhostAvatar
    @TheGhostAvatar7 ай бұрын

    The Model T was available in 5 colours right from the start. It only went to black only 5 years later, when they standardised production to reduce the price.

  • @alexanderx33
    @alexanderx339 ай бұрын

    The way you would eliminate the incentive for planned obsolenscence would be to provide as part of market pricing information, the price vs longevity of an object. This is already a thing in the commercial market and to some degree in consumer vehicles. But a testing agency would improve the communication efficiency of the market sunstantially in this arena. That or a third party testing organization similar to consumer reports but with alot more testing and actual numerical rating rather than color coding.

  • @realjw57
    @realjw572 жыл бұрын

    The worse part is when they apply the same mindset to health care and pharmaceuticals.

  • @sapien82

    @sapien82

    2 жыл бұрын

    conveniently ignored it seems

  • @chrisdock8804

    @chrisdock8804

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sackler family goes brrrrr

  • @madattaktube

    @madattaktube

    2 жыл бұрын

    This logic only works in the USA though - in the rest of the world healthcare is not a free market and is extremely tightly regulated, as well as containing research funded by charities and government organizations.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@madattaktube /\ _This!_ /\

  • @lofity6668

    @lofity6668

    2 жыл бұрын

    decrease people's lifespan so they have lots of kids, then money go brrr

  • @h7opolo
    @h7opolo3 жыл бұрын

    this explains the common phrase, "they don't make 'em like they used to."

  • @Petaurista13

    @Petaurista13

    3 жыл бұрын

    also" we make myths about them. Man things wasn't really so good quality, many other was more durable as they were more complex (so not much to break) or people weren't sing them so much and actually main reason for lower quality is mass-production. Simply if you want to mass product cheap stuff it has to be made cheap. There is saying in my country "tanio kupujesz - dwa razy kupujesz" (literally: "You buy cheap - you buy twice")

  • @nathanberrigan9839

    @nathanberrigan9839

    3 жыл бұрын

    Survivorship Bias is the main thing responsible for that phrase.

  • @COPKALA

    @COPKALA

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is sentence false, a washing machine, for example, does NOT break up now in a shorter time than 20 or 40 years ago. There are tests that independent laboratories have performed on the subject. What is true is that: repair in not as cheap as it used to be, there are less independent repair shops around. It is much less easy to repair things. At the same time new items are more efficient (less energy, less water, less detergent, clothes come out with less wrinkles) and there is a trade off that people needs to balance.

  • @ShynRou

    @ShynRou

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nathanberrigan9839 Sure but especially in electronics, it was standard to build things with screws and to publish full schematics so you or an independent technician can repair it.

  • @TheHumanSystem

    @TheHumanSystem

    3 жыл бұрын

    Humans are interesting. It is mostly the fault of the companies, but the individual humans do not help by always craving the latest and greatest version.

  • @camdenfurry5187
    @camdenfurry5187Ай бұрын

    This has been popping up in my recommended for 2 years and they finally got me. I guess i have to watch it now

  • @stevensrocks798
    @stevensrocks7986 ай бұрын

    We mostly have bayonet fittings on our light fixtures in the UK, we do use screw bulbs but they're not the standard.

  • @Hi.ImKiba
    @Hi.ImKiba3 жыл бұрын

    Damn they really wanted us to buy a new car every year? Im still in shirts from 10 years ago man

  • @ericmann1781

    @ericmann1781

    3 жыл бұрын

    This. All my coats are 10+ years old lol I even bought an LG V20 at the end of it's "career" because it was the only phone I could buy with a replaceable battery. Just bought a new li-po battery for it because there's no way in hell I am paying the price of today's phone + plan, as long as the damn thing turns on and I can call/text/gps, I'm going to keep using it.

  • @Gichini

    @Gichini

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have underwear from highschool 😂😂😂

  • @Redmanticore

    @Redmanticore

    3 жыл бұрын

    every year for a new car... sure, if I can rent it as a service for a minuscule monthly price.. there are also other kinds of planned obsolescence, in the software world. I would use my 2013 Samsung galaxy s4 still, but my banking and post-office applications just started complaining, that for them to keep updating and hence for me to continue their use, I would need to update the phone´s operating system from android 5, which was the last update to it, or they would seize to work. which would mean buying the latest cheap phone with the latest operating system, or deleting the old operating system from the phone and crack it to install a new unofficial operating system, which is, of course, not officially supported by Samsung. but still, the software-side short cycle of official support policy continues on the newest phones too, maybe at two years worth of operating system updates, at max. not even that is promised by all phone makers. the korean s4 had been working just fine, just replaced a battery once, so ill keep it as a backup phone if decide to change to a cheap Chinese one. of which components will probably start failing in a year.

  • @DJRonnieG

    @DJRonnieG

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Redmanticore I keep my note 3 around as a backup and even gave a few battery packs that I can can charge independently. All of my newer phones have non-removable batteries which used to bother me. I like that I can use my Note 8 in the shower... even after buying a used Galaxy Fold fromfriend, I still keep my SIM in the note because it's so versatile for my rough use.

  • @dubious6718

    @dubious6718

    3 жыл бұрын

    I didn't buy any new clothes in 2020, cause I have a washing machine and reuse my clothes.. In 2021 o far I have bought socks

  • @AlexDisibio
    @AlexDisibio3 жыл бұрын

    The real reason that we can't have nice things is that we let companies get away with these things. We keep buying their products and don't call them out. People actually believe them when they are told they need the "latest and greatest". If we want nice things, we need to stop following marketing and start holding companies accountable.

  • @stefanl5183

    @stefanl5183

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is true and is also a significant part of the problem. In essence we've become a society of convenience and a "throw away" society. Look at things like food packaging. Take for example bottles. There was a time when things like soft drinks and milk came in reusable bottles. The first time you purchased it you put up a small deposit on the bottle. from then on you just carrying the empty bottle to store or leave it the front doorstep for the milk man and avoid paying the deposit. The bottles were washed, inspected, and reused. nowadays that would be considered way too much inconvenience by most people and they'd never do it. Yet, those very same people will often cry and moan about "saving the planet" as long as it requires no effort whatsoever on their part.

  • @schwiftyasfuck8575

    @schwiftyasfuck8575

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's almost as if our current economic system is somewhat misaligned with the interests of the vast majority of people

  • @robinbantigny8640

    @robinbantigny8640

    3 жыл бұрын

    They do not only get a significant margin that did not change financial inequalities, they also build up a system of over-extraction without even considering that the volume of waste will follow the one of sales up to the environmental breakdown we are in.

  • @coganaj

    @coganaj

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stefanl5183 Bottle washing, cleaning, recycling, etc., etc., etc. &and etc. could mean jobs in those fields or/and related robotics jobs building and programming robots to do said bottle washing, cleaning, recycling, etc., etc., etc., and etc. It's called jobs, not inconveniences.

  • @DeathBringer769

    @DeathBringer769

    3 жыл бұрын

    Every time someone tries to hold Apple responsible, for example, they eventually settle out of court for hundreds of millions, which is small compared to how much they make overall from planned obsolescence/blocking repair and battery replacement as much as possible/etc because sadly even most people who claim to not want to let companies get away with these things get swayed to go away and shut up once they are offered a cut of those millions of dollars, lol. I wish all those class action lawsuits wouldn't have settled out of court. Defeats the whole point just for some money.

  • @MOAON_AABE
    @MOAON_AABE9 ай бұрын

    Thank you for educating people on this!!!

  • @winespringinc.9447
    @winespringinc.9447Ай бұрын

    Same thing with glass. In the GDR a basicly unbreakble glass was invented (with the unfortunate name chemical enforced glass) but production was discontinued in the 90s.

  • @SneakySolidSnake
    @SneakySolidSnake Жыл бұрын

    people thought: "in a hundred years, we'll have flying cars." what really happens in a hundred years is, "we'll focus on making tires break in a safe way."

  • @LawsOnJoystick

    @LawsOnJoystick

    Жыл бұрын

    Flying cars are helicopters

  • @sannewijn8695

    @sannewijn8695

    Жыл бұрын

    Wouldnt it be weird if your flying car would suddenly fall out the sky because it reached 18 months?

  • @LawsOnJoystick

    @LawsOnJoystick

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sannewijn8695 maintenance

  • @OnyxIdol

    @OnyxIdol

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LawsOnJoystick wooosh

  • @gomahklawm4446

    @gomahklawm4446

    Жыл бұрын

    Capitalism.....money over people every single time...

  • @ohaider123
    @ohaider1233 жыл бұрын

    Somewhere, Louis Rossmann got an extra 20 minutes of sleep because of the release of this video.

  • @fr0styy202

    @fr0styy202

    3 жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAHA

  • @PiniiXever

    @PiniiXever

    3 жыл бұрын

    Literally

  • @TheBetterGame

    @TheBetterGame

    3 жыл бұрын

    Louis is going on vacation. Not a joke, in his last video he said he's taking a break and going away.

  • @randomjasmicisrandom

    @randomjasmicisrandom

    3 жыл бұрын

    The poor guy needs it. Have you seen the bags under his eyes!?

  • @skydivekrazy76

    @skydivekrazy76

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol, you bet.

  • @skessisalive
    @skessisalive8 ай бұрын

    This reminds me of a similar thing going on with video games, they can’t make video games too good or else eventually they would make the perfect game with absolutely everything and there would be no need to play any other game

  • @user-tb9wh8pd9t
    @user-tb9wh8pd9t10 күн бұрын

    Very interesting and well presented. Amazon really made me angry recently when they turned off software support for my Kindle bought in 2012 so that I couldn't load any new books on it. I was told that they are not designed to be used for so long and I need to replace it. When I told them that my Kindle was working fine and the battery was as good as when I purchased it they got snotty about it and cut me off. I bought the updated version which even more anoyingly is not as good as my old one which produced an effect very much like reading a printed page. This one is much more obvuiously an LED screen and not so easy on the eyes. I may yet report them to the EU.

  • @ConnoisseurOfExistence
    @ConnoisseurOfExistence3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine the waste of resources, human labor and damage to the environment, that the planned obsolescence have costed the world... For all the products that this tactics have been used combined, we're probably talking about many millions of human lives wasted to sustain this system, let alone the resources and the environment...

  • @constantineas2523

    @constantineas2523

    3 жыл бұрын

    So true my friend ....this is very bad for the enviroment.

  • @HungryTacoBoy

    @HungryTacoBoy

    3 жыл бұрын

    I saw your thumbnail and thought, "Wait, I commented on this video already?" Nice pic!

  • @wilurbean

    @wilurbean

    3 жыл бұрын

    The alternative system, maybe not planned obsolescence, but probably. Greed pervades all systems. But in our system, the cartel broke up after about a decade. In the other system, the gov and cartel are the same thing by design.

  • @Puzzlesocks

    @Puzzlesocks

    3 жыл бұрын

    The question then leads to "what to do with all the people who aren't working?" I recommend looking into the Rat Utopia experiment. It shows that when animals no longer have to worry about life, they end up with all sorts of horrible issues. I despise planned obsolescence as much as anyone, but people without work is potentially a worse issue to have. I don't know the correct answer. I don't think anyone does. I personally feel that we just have too many people, and that have an addiction to progress. It could very well be that we are playing out the story of Icarus, and we won't know we are metaphorically flying too high until our wings melt and we fall to earth.

  • @ddegn

    @ddegn

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Puzzlesocks "I personally feel that we just have too many people" Except lots of people make economy of scale possible. Smartphones would be prohibitively expensive if the population of the world were significantly reduced. Anyway, I liked your reply and I also don't know the correct answer.

  • @drakenbakken
    @drakenbakken3 жыл бұрын

    Lets not talk about how most of these LED bulb are overclocked on purpose to die when they physically should last forever

  • @EddSjo

    @EddSjo

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is fixalbe if you have some electric know-how as a consumer, but the point still stands. Also, it's not just "overclocked on purpose to die", but more like small leds are cheaper, and people want bright bulbs, so the industry pushes small leds for small the small profit compared to larger, more suitable leds for the given output.

  • @Vetospeedo

    @Vetospeedo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Company sells light bulbs that never go out = more money in the short run, and will probably ruin a industry. Company sells light bulbs that go out after a year= more money in the long run, and more jobs for people. It's really just about money for these businesses. Apple probably is 20 years ahead of what they put out.

  • @sedme0

    @sedme0

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, no, it's not clocked at all. It's that they run at too high a current.

  • @gregfaris6959

    @gregfaris6959

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sedme0 Both statements can be correct when we're discussing % duty cycles in Pulse Width Modulation

  • @sycc66

    @sycc66

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gregfaris6959 No, because then the clock is still the same. Overclocked means increased frequency, not increased duty cycle.

  • @PatrickCamblin
    @PatrickCamblin4 ай бұрын

    Internet content access is restricted to geographies in part because countries' revenue models are different. For instance, at least into the 1970s, England had few advertisements on TV because programming and broadcasting was paid for through a tax on each TV. If the US had been able to intercept those broadcasts, then Americans would have gotten to watch with no ads and no taxes. I'd imagine there might be similar revenue and cost differences and considerations with respect to internet content production and transmission. For instance, in the U.S., "Net Neutrality" regulations would have greatly affected our internet revenue generation models. And there are a number of other regulations either planned or in place that impact revenue, such as those over privacy, eCommerce, intellectual property and copyrights, antitrust, and cybersecurity.

  • @atharvagunde832
    @atharvagunde8325 ай бұрын

    15:00, my man literally called it!

  • @jonathanbates9928

    @jonathanbates9928

    5 ай бұрын

    Was just going to say this lol.

  • @qwerty_and_azerty
    @qwerty_and_azerty3 жыл бұрын

    My parents love pointing out to me how everything made in their day was actually higher quality. It makes me so sad to not have nice things. And it makes the planet sad. Imagine how much less pollution there would be if things lasted decades instead of a single year.

  • @BenJaminLongTime

    @BenJaminLongTime

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hate people that say that, it is not universally true that things were better. You think an aircraft from their day was better than the ones today? Nah bro. But I do have first hand experience and would agree many things built back then were in fact better, such as a 1930 tractor we have on my familys farm, that thing will run all day eevery day no matter what, meanwhile you go to the tractor shop buy or rent a brand new one straight from germany and it has a broken gas gauge due to arizona heat causing the plastic tank to expand and break the sensor, then you proceed to drive it and break more stuff on it... this is just my experience and I was always highly against the idea that things were made better. I have since agreed that yes, some things were definitly better. Keep in mind the tractors Im comparing were massively different, the old one has little that can go wrong, the new one is far far bigger and complicated with a lot of computer components as well. So definitly a grain of salt.

  • @gwanael34

    @gwanael34

    3 жыл бұрын

    Our first refrigerator lasted 25 years. And even then we only threw it away cause the freezer was freezing (it could still refrigerate)

  • @ness576

    @ness576

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@BenJaminLongTime well maybe their parent werent buying aircrafts and tractors left and right. Maybe they refer to domestic or daily life items. Even if technology has gotten exponentially better each decade you wouldt make a toaster out of graphite or a dresser out of some fancy alloy.

  • @qwerty_and_azerty

    @qwerty_and_azerty

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gwanael34 Of course it’s not universally true. Smart phones, for example, didn’t even exist back then. But it’s true of enough consumer products as to be a noticeable trend. When I said “everything” in my original statement, I was hyperbolizing. In reality, my parents would point to specific things and discuss those, not make blanket statements.

  • @Beregorn88

    @Beregorn88

    3 жыл бұрын

    Things were also way more expensive: if the trend is to buy the cheapest thing, no matter the quality, then the average quality would drop...

  • @esdev92
    @esdev923 жыл бұрын

    "Quality over quantity, just make sure there's not too much quality, else there will be no quantity."

  • @testacals

    @testacals

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@anonwithamnesia Let say you made a ever lasting phone . You can only sell what 7 billion after that you have to move on

  • @moving.quotes

    @moving.quotes

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think the solution is to "embrace the change". Train the people to not just get stuck in one job but rotate their jobs. This way if we have reached pinnacle of light bulb we can use the workforce for some other challenge. Skill set of individual should free them not trap them in a job. The software industry has embraced this. People in IT keep learning throughout their career. If they don't learn they get irrelevant. The learning pace is cut throat as well. Learning is good for individuals! It basically gives the individual the confidence to stand in the face of change.

  • @marzipancutter8144

    @marzipancutter8144

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@testacals Oh woe is me, after getting stupid rich off of a single invention now I might have to use my genius-level intellect capable of creating an everlasting phone for some other productive thing, rather than sitting on that single achievement for the rest of my life and three generations of my heirs doing the same.

  • @ozanmrcan

    @ozanmrcan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@marzipancutter8144 that might be the reason why you are not a businessman

  • @Mikelica69

    @Mikelica69

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@moving.quotes THIS

  • @bhaveshrana4250
    @bhaveshrana42508 ай бұрын

    I normally don't bother to comment on videos I like, but this was very informative! Keep doing what you're doing.

  • @tonylee1667

    @tonylee1667

    4 ай бұрын

    Unfortunate that this video is straight up wrong

  • @jeannovacco5136
    @jeannovacco51363 ай бұрын

    I had an aunt born before 1920 who told me about testing nylon stockings that wouldn't wear out for a long time .. .. I think she explained this in the 1970s when there was it was a brand of women's stockings called something like " Ironware" from Sears and which was less likely to tear than other brands. My aunt's husband mentioned automobiles that got better mileage. The big deal in the right to repair movement is not so much small personal consumer devices as large firm equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars where manufacturers add built-in and made illegal certain parts which were impossible to repair and got buyers to sign some kind of Licensing that they not attempt to do repairs themselves. I think the obstruction to repairs had something to do with warranties on the equipment. There was a lot of litigation about this because, addition to repairs to the manufacturer being made unnecessarily costly, there were massive knock-on effects such as not being able to get a service technician mechanic or parts at critical times in the planting and harvesting cycle come out there by putting the farmers entire operations and livelihoods at risk. Some of us would like to think that the government is it supposed to help people by regulating or making illegal practices like these, but apparently nobody could demand it because we didn't know what we didn't know -- at least not in the aggregate as the population. What people work in these industries and test them and have memories of buying products that work better. My mother's sister and her sister's husband were obviously hip to planned obsolescence, even though they may not have called it that. They would just mention that companies knew how to make things better and longer lasting. Automobiles used to break down terribly often, to the point that many people learn how to work on their own cars. Even my mother who left everything mechanical to my father knew how to insert a screwdriver into the carburetor to open up the butterfly and change the mix between the air and fuel. Only after the Japanese started more reliable cars into the US market did auto manufacturers start to pay more attention to reliability as an element of quality. Rust on car bodies particularly sheet metal what's a constant up the problem if you weren't trading in a new vehicle every few years play. So people who knew how to keep the cars running and we're unconcerned about style and color also had to learn how to perform cosmetic Body Work repairs. One reason people would hold on to their vehicles is that you could order exactly what you wanted from Detroit and the specifically vehicle would be put together for your specifications. Paint color including two colors, tires, different exterior trim, color and type of upholstery and other interior features including a specific radios; air conditioning was far from standard and so was power steering and power assist brakes. A big decision was whether the transmission was standard or automatic. The type and style of engines diferred but was linked with different models. That was the platform on which to build other choices. The last car I ordered was a Subaru from Japan in the early 1980s and they never shipped it. It wasn't really personalized but specific to two-door or four-door, motor and transmission. I think I had to pay $1,000 more to get something comparable from the next year's models. There wasn't much help from beyond the regional division of the Importer and no recourse. Later I found out shopping for new models at one time the requirement was to put in your zip code and the dealer would only offer the price in your home area not the potentially better price that was available in another state or region. These days it looks like a lot of new vehicles have design flaws in the engine compartment that can once again make repairs frequent and expensive, especially amongst pickup trucks. The last vehicle I bought was a 1985 pickup to avoid paying extortionate property taxes and because there's only so much that can go wrong with a vehicle with less electronics. Whether it's vehicles houses or clothing or Electronics the mass media is always full of voices ready to shame people for wearing or owning something that is "dated". Maybe the people who are trying to make such a fuss about saving the planet or to look into the wasteful practices of the fashion industry and other proponents of style.

  • @HECKproductions
    @HECKproductions3 жыл бұрын

    engineer: we made it last up to 25.000 hours business person: great now make it last 1.000 hours engineers: ಠ_ಠ

  • @tmpEngine

    @tmpEngine

    3 жыл бұрын

    engineer: but why that's stupid ! business person: shut up if you wanna keep that salary engineer: okay

  • @Rhinoch8

    @Rhinoch8

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tmpEngine my experience as a corporate engineer. kept my job 1 week. left with big balls and an empty wallet.

  • @juniorsir9521

    @juniorsir9521

    3 жыл бұрын

    So basically people will only have good lasting things in paradise when all dishonest people are gone. I guess this world is currently catering the rich and greedy. Sad.

  • @iIiWARHEADiIi

    @iIiWARHEADiIi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Make 25 lamps from materials out of one

  • @killercat970

    @killercat970

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juniorsir9521 or when the engineers and workers have more say in the operations and practices of industry. A democratization of the workplace, if you will. Less power to CEOs and shareholders and more power to the backbone: the producers and laborers.

  • @amoltandon2900
    @amoltandon29003 жыл бұрын

    "There was a secret meeting between the world's top executives from the world's leading lightbulb companies" Never thought I'd hear that sentence is my life.

  • @scarlace

    @scarlace

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah similar story with the sugar cane industry. And they managed to get weed illegal up to this point because of their scheming

  • @uncannyvalley2350

    @uncannyvalley2350

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now imagine what the oil, beef, and defence contractors get up to

  • @uncannyvalley2350

    @uncannyvalley2350

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@scarlace weed was banned in large part to enforce apartheid, but also to protect the petrochemical industry, as hemp can reproduce the lions share of their products

  • @abointedtoyblingofmats

    @abointedtoyblingofmats

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@uncannyvalley2350 agriculture gets more than all of those, grains and cheap crops has always, and will always be slave food

  • @dr.vivekbindra5906

    @dr.vivekbindra5906

    3 жыл бұрын

    W H a t s a p p +1 6 8 9 2 0 2 8 1 9 7

  • @you-know-who9023
    @you-know-who902318 күн бұрын

    Great video! Just had a chance to view it now. Twenty one million views. Message about right to repair and planned obsolescence is resonating around the world.

  • @psychlist4271
    @psychlist42718 ай бұрын

    I've often wondered if the main reason filament light bulbs tend to fail is partially due to the thermal displacement on the filament. When the bulb is cycled on and off, this causes displacement back to the original length. This certainly causes the filament to endure tensile stresses as a result. So, if a bulb is never turned off, would it's usable hours be greater than if it is cycled on and off regularly?

  • @dylanvellut
    @dylanvellut3 жыл бұрын

    I studied chemistry to change the world and make it better, safer, more efficient. Now I realise I can’t change economic dynamics

  • @oldtimetinfoilhatwearer

    @oldtimetinfoilhatwearer

    3 жыл бұрын

    Use your knowledge to bomb power stations

  • @smk77097

    @smk77097

    3 жыл бұрын

    Start your own company

  • @nicklatino7157

    @nicklatino7157

    3 жыл бұрын

    Should get some education in economics

  • @zainiikhwan9405

    @zainiikhwan9405

    3 жыл бұрын

    Capitalism ho!

  • @irjonesy

    @irjonesy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Go to Mars and start over. We need to welcome in the new age of building systems that ensure the scientists and engineers win. The business and finance people got us where we are today. The scientists and engineers will bring us to the future.

  • @kevnar
    @kevnar2 жыл бұрын

    "A secret meeting of top executives..." Nothing good ever comes out of secret meetings of top executives of any industry.

  • @cessposter

    @cessposter

    2 жыл бұрын

    usb (although I believe in serial port superiority)

  • @vorpal22

    @vorpal22

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's because the people most likely to become successful top executives have sociopathy / psychopathy. You usually don't get rich by being generous and virtuous.

  • @eltwarg6388

    @eltwarg6388

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vorpal22 ... or just an average person.

  • @saxxy4306

    @saxxy4306

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vorpal22 i think like you. thats a solid point

  • @vorpal22

    @vorpal22

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@eltwarg6388 Studies have shown that people with sociopathy are more likely to be successful in business, or be complete failures in life, while people without this personality disorder are less likely to be successful businesspeople. Certainly that doesn't imply that every CEO is a psychopath, but a disproportionate number of CEOs are psychopaths.

  • @shlokshah5379
    @shlokshah53794 ай бұрын

    Technological connections has a video on this. Atleast in the lightbulbs case it was made so that the light coming from it didn't destroy the bulb. You can make barely glowing bulb and mark it for a million hours or you can make a 1000 hr bulb with good light. Bulbs were basically free then.

  • @jamesdinius7769
    @jamesdinius776915 күн бұрын

    Fun fact, the Model T was offered in more colors, even on launch. The only black offering was only from 1914-1925, and was likely due to supply limitations imposed by WWI and its aftermath (at least initially).

  • @robbiej3642
    @robbiej36423 жыл бұрын

    "The man in the white suit" would be a very relevant movie to remake today.

  • @legoyoda2773

    @legoyoda2773

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think it would be a great film to pixar-ify for kids, but Disney sure does love their profit so idk if thatll ever happen

  • @ravec4

    @ravec4

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah and how he defeated Thanos with his superpowers and guns and explosions, you know? One every year..

  • @AlxBrb

    @AlxBrb

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe redoing it with a smartphone or a perfect (1000x the mWh per 0.0001 the weight of a li-ion) battery instead of a cloth could be a very interesting start point for a remake of that movie.

  • @AlxBrb

    @AlxBrb

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Free Mankind unless you have a set of sanitary institutions testing every medicine that they are going to buy and emitting fines for dozens of millions per years because of security issues or private lobbying attempts, and you have free medicines and you have to pay only 36 euros for whatever exam, surgery, or rehab plan you need to do because you live in a real nation and not in america.. Big pharma only wants money, find a way to structure its demand of money over time and you will have all the quality you want.

  • @macethorns1168

    @macethorns1168

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AlxBrb The US has the best healthcare in the world. Nobody flies to the UK or Canada (or whatever shithole you're from) to get cutting edge care.