Planned Obsolescence Will Kill Us All
…and that’s why!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:36 Planned Obsolescence: the Basics
18:16 The Value of Everything (That Exists)
28:43 The Goddamn Environment
34:28 Born of the Depression
46:26 ...and that's why
Thank you to @ignosegnose5578 and EvangelineTheodora for the quotes!
References (in rough order of appearance)
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• Planned Obsolescence Sucks. Here's Why It ...
• This is why we can't have nice things
• What Is Right To Repair?
Stuff You Should Know https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZDB...
Made to Break, Giles Slade
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy, Markus Krajewski https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-l...
United States v. General Electric Co., 82 F. Supp. 753 (D.N.J. 1949) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...
• Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complic...
‘Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime’, Bisschop
Why fashion brands destroy billions’ worth of their own merchandise every year, Chavie Lieber https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/...
• The oldest continually running lightbulb i...
Rescuing Conservatism: A Defense of Existing Value, G.A. Cohen
• Values in Repair
Values in Repair, Houston et al, 2016
• How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste G...
Disentangling the worldwide web of e-waste and climate change co-benefits, Singh and Ogunseitan
Mine e-waste, not the Earth, say scientists, Victoria Gill https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en...
E-waste: An assessment of global production and environmental impacts, Robinson
Fixing the World One Thing at a Time: Community repair and a sustainable circular economy, der Velden
Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence, London
The General Theory, Keynes
• basically every video essay
• why does every video essay start like this.
• The Simpsons and the Death of Parody
• The Bizarre Modern Reality of The Simpsons ]
• The Rise and Fall of Replika
Is There a Future for Left-Wing YouTube?, Nicholas Burman https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/the-...
‘We are losing money’: companies in Apple’s repair program say they can’t compete with tech giant, Josh Taylor https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...