Planned Obsolescence Will Kill Us All

The lightning cable IS better than the 32 pin, though. better things just make older things obsolete, too.

yeah, the simpsons really fell off, didn't it? oh wait this video is about planned obsolescence

I'd rather have a stagnating economy with things that work, than spend my life to buy things that I don't get to keep.

Ariat cowboy boots last forever. I got mine as a birthday gift in 7th grade…my dad taught me how to polish and waterproof them. I wear them almost everyday… lots of things will still last if you learn to fix them and only buy the ones you know how to fix.

why do people keep calling it sex work? its such a clumsy 2 word combination for something we already have a word for. PROSTITUTION.

we dont call it object designer, we call it engineer as well. why make language more complicated?

its not even just that the hardware doesnt last long enough anymore. they even make sure that the software bricks the item after some time.

I think I could accept planned obsolesce a bit better if it were not combined with the unsustainable demand for corporations to generate ever higher profits. It is no longer enough for a company to make a healthy profit, that profit needs to be higher each quarter than the quarter before. This is not a sustainable practice. There is a limit to how much blood can be squeezed from the turnip before it turns into a lemon.

There actually used to be businesses that would put new soles on footwear when they wore out. Now everything is not only designed to be tossed, it is made to wear out quickly.

Henry Ford was based, and for a number of reasons.

I have a Belgian waffle maker from my great grandmother. It works great and I love it. It is probably as older than me.

When I was a
young man I undertook the task of removing some surface rust off of my '65 Triumph TR-4 and bought a new Black & Decker belt sander to aid the process. 17 seconds into the project the machine completely burned out.
I had moved to Seattle a couple years later and found myself in the industrial district (back when Seattle had one of those) poking around the small retail area of a huge wholesale construction supply company. It must've been a slow day (back when Seattle had those days) because the only other person in there was a salesman dressed in "too new" construction clothes trying schmooze a tall muscular guy who was workimg the front office. Grateful for the interruption, the guy asked me if he could help me find something. I can't recall what it was I was looking for but after explaining my need of a particlar tool's adapter/fitting/accessory, he said he didn't think so but pointed to a nearby aisle where I could try looking. On the way over, the salesman asked if I ever considered Black & Decker. From the other side of the aisle, I related my 17 second experience w/ the sander and said how I'd never buy a B&D product again. Wirh a conspiritorial grin towards the guy behind the coumter, he said, "That's because you were using the home owner grade."
The company guy just raised an eyebrow at the salesman when I said, "You mean I could expect a contractor grade to last TWICE as long? Sorry, pal, but your company shouldn't have put their name on it."
I didn't find my part and exited the store, waving goodbye to an amused company man and a deflated salesman. That was nearly 40 years ago and, to this day, I won't even buy a Black & Decker coffee maker.
My point is that what little power we have as consumers must be exerted to its fullest--being nearly psycotically stalwort in our personal boycotts and our "...fool me twice..." convictions.

Bro, ur gonna lose your mind when you read Kapital

Thank you for this. Planned obsolescence is a great example of how there is more than one measure of efficiency, and that pursuing profits optimally can be horribly destructive.

I never noticed that creators can make the subscribe button genuenly glow when thney mention it

Unlearning economics, would you be interested in debating LiquidZulu on economics or ethics? He has 4k subscribers and he is an Austrian, anarcho-capitalist and an objectivist. LiquidZulu would be happy to have a conversation with you on economics, including on Planned Obsolescence like this video.

This is absolutely and completely unrelated to the video but i just randomly stumbled across a comment you left in 2012 on a critique of David Graebers book from a libertarian think tank and youre the only person in the comments who had a perspective akin to mine in the comments 😂

This is my first time watching your channel and I am sold because of your willingness to have an open mind when you recommend another one with a different opinion

If you’re describing a cartel or a financial conspiracy you cannot use the word “capitalism”. You are describing anti-competitive market meddling. That’s not capitalism. That’s socialism. And the reason things will never get better is because the left wing has been fully brainwashed into demanding more socialism to fix the socialism that is exploiting them and which they inexplicably blame on “capitalism”

Nothing sacred under a CAPITALIST sun. NO AMOUNT OF GREED WILL BENIFIT HUMANITY

Governments and corporations would do well to follow the advice on how to govern contained within in the Tao Te Ching.

I bought my microwave in 1999. Until it gives up on me, I'm not giving up on it 😊

They're running the same racket with LED bulbs now. The LED cells last forever, but the circuitry fries way too quickly. They do NOT last as long as they used to.

It's a good this this won't last. Just pray that the political reaction to our suicidal society doesn't go to the other extreme.

The light bulb story is bullshit btw

Oh my God power tool companies have embraced this so hard in the last 20 years. You could get a circular saw or sawzall that lasted for 10 or 15 years even with everyday use. You're lucky to get 2-3 years out of even the top of the line brands now.

Mf really implying that planned obsolescence is what consumers asked for and helps make things cheaper. Can you provide at least three example of something getting cheaper in terms of working hours per item in the last 30 years? THAT is why capitalism is bad 😏

It's sad but true...

Drop by any pawn or resale shop...

People just keep shopping, something new comes along, they have to have it.

Absolutely!

Windows 7 was Microsoft's best operating system ever...

Now you can't even use a Windows 7 computer on the internet because the company left it unprotected...

I knew someone who worked at a tv shops they used to turn up the brightness and saturation and other settings on the tvs so that they would burn out quickly and only last a year (to match the warranty) so after that one year it would suddenly start to fade/sound wouldn’t be as loud and they would have to be replaced the store made thousands from doing this. It such scummy behaviour.

I like to keep my items as long as possible I had my Samsung phone for 6 years and a washing machine for 5 years (it was my boyfriend fathers who had it for 8 years and bought it second hand before hand from someone so it’s at least 15+ years old and still looks brand new) we had hand me down metal pots and pans which are roughly 10+ years old and still going strong I hate how people feel the need to constantly replace or get new cause it looks better or is cleaner looking ect we are so wasteful. I take good care my stuff because I don’t want to replace them and waste money which is why everything I own is over 10+ years old even clothes I value my items cause I cared for them for so long and kept them in good condition where other people have the mindset of oh well I get a new one don’t tend to value anything

I’m glad people are starting to wake up and realise that if we take better care of items/get second hand items and get more sustainable items they will last longer and better for the earth.

We somehow still too much stuck to idea that we must work... Just why? Mean we anyway need to do something to not gone in a madness, but why it need to be "work" which You hate anyway and which eat from You this moments when You can being with beloved people?
This corpse are long dead, but his body still moving and doesn't know about.

Enjoyed watching this video on my smartphone with wireless ear buds

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Also look into "5G" obsolescence. 1000s of older phones that are both 4G and 5G compatible have been stricken from the list of allowable phones on all networks.They are manually disabled by imei. Extra sleezy since 5G is still not available and/or real actual 5G even for some people that pay extra for it. Creating milluons of tons of electronic waste with the stroke of a pen for no reason other than profit. You will own nothing and you will be happy, until the cancer takes you out

Designing products to reflect their price and cheapness of consumers

Some of the things that died on me weren't replaced. Microwave was swapped out for an older toaster oven, manual can opener to replace the electric one. Buy a watch battery instead of a new watch and other things. Life goes on.

Oh my goodness! Trying to glean information from this video is like trying to enjoy a nice meal, but after every bite a little gnome pokes your eye and shouts, "Climate change!" or "Labor!!!"

This is very well done. Extremely informative and quite balanced. As a non-native speaker I also appreciate your excellent diction. I learnt a lot, thank you!

God damn, LED lightbulbs DO NOT last longer! They are a scam! U make good videos but don't spread propaganda!

The problem isn't it, the problem of it is finding the balance, it's not inclining one side of the spectrum or to the other, like I said in my previous comment replacing a car per year is extremely erroneous and nobody can buy it, with the current economy, that thing about Obsolescence is that it is used to profit, rather than balance, it's like Ai art its use to replace rather then to be a tool to help humans.

the problems are not the situation, it's how the situation is being balanced in respective to what actively happening.

everything needs balance, all the way from the foundation of human dna, and health, it's a term of balance not too much not to less.

video game Destiny 2 complete definition of Obsolescence

in modern times 1 year, a card cost like 17k dollars, it should last over 10 years at minimum like were talking that basically 20 years or more, because a car is extremely expensive, and people just don't have the money to buy it especially with ai replacing everything now where the best you could struggle for is15k dollar a year at average salary, to be able to even eat food, get a car, and have a ceiling, and every single year inflation and deflation nis making it worse.

like it is so unreal that in a lifetime of every day working, people could maintain 4 cars, eat, a family, a house, and buying the proper technology of first need like cellphones, keeping that cellphone with internet, and service with a subscription base, and paying bills, like the plate is so extremely full, that working and doing everything that meets 100% all the protocol, rules and standard of these things is realistically impossible, unaffordable by basically the average person and it gets worse every year.

like 1 car per year that's crazy, i feel like people would just evolve into public transportation and walking, because between the ever inflation, of food, water, and house rent, and the ever decrees n human employment due to ai, is just too much to maintain a car that completes with the regulations realistically.

like that just bad for economy of the average consumer, it's extremely bad for products to have a such limited life shelf especially when there expensive like a car or a house witch both needs constant maintenance and repairs, due to random crashes and time, it's just not efficient.

with how uphill life is, to the point if you don't work you will die of starvation, or diseases or hygiene or heart problems due to bad health and the ever competition that rising pitting human with literal machines like ai, just makes it worse when these ai are basically replacing human, progress is not bad, the hastened progress without thinking the consequence's it has at a greater picture is what's bad and provoking billions to suffer in a non-recoverable collapsing system, like ai replacing humans in every way, and the insane competitiveness it's just too much.

like legit society and general people are head diving to a situation, that headed into a state where if the average person doesn't have some sort of conjuring magical power of magic threw their hand, to out beat ai or some insane skill, people and human as we know it would collapse, and that include these companies, because people with no money cannot afford on a new car realistically, land, or anything, and what happens is that the people that can will be in a constant war with the millions who can't, and it will just increase crime rate exponentially.

because crime is actually the desperate natural manifestation, the reason why crime happens is because the constant lack of something, that is being restricted by other being, that effect you and your family, and as a natural instinct you look a way to remove the ones causing the problem and after so many tries failed, sanity does devolve into violence and aggression.

this happens in any form, you see it with plants, you see it with animals, and you even see it with humans, when there is a competitiveness that puts the life of a living being at risk, the eventful manifestation is an aggressive and violence one, because the constant need of something yet unable to be obtained through any method constantly causes mental instability.

and companies depend on people to even profit, meaning if you're constantly locking people in every turn, your company eventually collapses on itself.

Great video! Can see the huge amount of work put in to make it.

If you want to cover the car crash, fine. You should highlight other REAL economies outside Capitalism, so we can abandon this trap and survive. "Progressives" are going to doom us all. Please. Stop. It is time to f*cking eject and make something else.

I bet this dude is gay

Capitalism bad indeed.

What I hear all the time is people who can't afford this, and can't afford that. Truth is that it is only a choice. Consumer society is training people to just simply buy without question, and that's the main issue. This is why most people just got lots of crap, instead of less things that are of higher quality. Personally I've been hard on this for a very long time now, where I just want few but good things. You just focus on your actual needs, and just simply pay what quality costs, and you make sure you do your part of maintaining what you got as well.
You can have great things if you want it, you just have to want it...

Disappoint the expectations of society of what you do with your wallet.