>>17091760
>what do you think of the light bulb conspiracy

Considering the extremely long life of LED bulbs, no longer relevant.

>planned obsolescence?
Undoubtedly; this is mainstream, public knowledge, it's not even /x/worthy. Now that Moore's law appears to finally be slowing, so that next year's iPhone may soon no longer be able to promise major improvements over the previous model, I'd expect to see much less of it in the near future. With electronics no longer guaranteed to be obsolete and underpowered within two years, it'll make sense to hold off on upgrading, and the hyperconsumerism associated with consumer electronics will likely cease to make planned obsolescence so easy to get away with.

>>17091760
As the other guy said, planned obsolescence is definitely a well-known thing. I think that much of what is mistaken for it, however, is just shoddy craftsmanship due to Capitalism basically forcing people to cut costs as much as possible.

I worked as an A/C repairman for about 5 years, and all the older American made things I saw (capacitors, compressors, motors) from like 30 years ago were still working fine. The Chinese made capacitors are often changed out every few years (sometimes as often as a few times a year), usually after they explode. Compressors you're lucky to get 10 years, and lucky to get 5 out of a motor. They probably don't make much more money, because better made stuff obviously demands a better price, so I can't see this falling under planned obsolescence.

Basically most of it is from American factories being closed down and moving all the manufacturing overseas. They should've just kept them and the jobs here, but whatever none of us can really do much about that.

All this artificial light is actually bad for us.