And most of the junk ends up in land fill's or the good parts get recycled..
BS We live in a disposable society now.Absolute nonsense. I have never ONCE been in an engineering meeting where "planned obsolescence" was raised as an issue, nor has any engineer I've ever asked (and I've asked quite a few). This is nothing but a myth, like chemtrails and Bigfoot, and spread by the same people who believe in those things.
Absolute nonsense. I have never ONCE been in an engineering meeting where "planned obsolescence" was raised as an issue, nor has any engineer I've ever asked (and I've asked quite a few). This is nothing but a myth, like chemtrails and Bigfoot, and spread by the same people who believe in those things.
So to emphasize, my comment was made in reference to consumer products that are easily repaired, but access to parts is limited.
Unfortunately you're ignoring the reasoning behind lack of spares availability - it's quite simply cost!.
It's VERY, VERY expensive to maintain an efficient supply of spare parts over a period of many years - and doing so would greatly increase the cost of the original units.
The specific example I gave is a product that has been in production for more than 20 years and is still in production. It is "assembled from domestic and imported parts." That is not a situation of having to warehouse parts for obsolete equipment. It is on-going production and the manufacturer has the parts.
The underlying point here is not that some stuff can't be made in China cheaper than in the US or UK, thus increasing profit.
This is why electronics repair is such unrewarding work. Too often it's cheaper for them to buy a new one than to pay you to fix the old one.
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