Video: Planned Obsolescence Sucks. Here's Why It Still Exists.

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By Our Changing ClimateJan 15, 2021, 12:00 pm149 pts
By Charlie Kilman In December of 1924, the heads of all the major lightbulb manufacturers across the world met in Geneva to concoct a sinister plan. Their talks outlined limits on how long all of their lightbulbs would last. The idea is that if their bulbs failed quickly customers would have to buy more of…

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