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Planned obsolescence sucks

By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Do you know how your phone has somewhere between two to three years before it starts slowing down? Or how you have to replace light bulbs every few months or so? That’s planned obsolescence in action, and it’s a gross industrial strategy. What this means is that companies will design their products to break down in a certain amount of time so customers will be encouraged to buy their newest products. And it makes me want to scream. This is an age-old strategy. The oldest known case of planned obsolescence is the Phoebus cartel; from 1924…

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