RIP my dream job😢

I made a LIVING as a gremlin!!!! Now what???!!!??

Plastic. Durable, light, flexible and longer lived than our current language. Now let's take... Plastic bottles for say... washing detergent. Instead of having shops where you can just refill, you are obliged to buy a whole goddamn bottle, put it in a special bin when it's empty, where there's a 10% chance it'll actually be recycled and even then can only be done once.

I was going to make a “I miss that job” joke, but ^^theeese^^ a**holes…

Yeah, the Mage's Guild took a big hit from that too. Now we mostly cast spells that cause constipation in our client's foes.

But capitalism is efficient 🤡

​@@TheModdedwarfare3I always hated that argument "because of of capitalism you have x,y, and!" No because of science and technology we do, capitalism could never have happened and we would still have cell phones

You think that's messed up? The only time workers are ever valued is when humanity faces a cataclysmic event and like half of us die off -- thus capitalism! But don't sell your body to sailors! Ohhh, rough trade

​@@TheModdedwarfare3efficient at screwing over the little people

The argument goes that planned obsolescence is to ensure there are jobs. So keep working and rebuying everything and never have savings.

This is an absolutely amazing suggestion.

Exactly. No-brainer. If they intentionally make things to break, they need to pay a tax to clean those things up.

They will then subcontract the recycling to another company... Who will ship the e-waste offshore for processing... The offshore company will promptly subcontract to another set of random 'recycling companies'... Each of which will either dump it all in a ditch in some third world company, or burn it... ... and the manufacturers can say, we recycle 100% of our products, as technically as far as they knew everything did go to be 'recycled'. Its all green washing, and hiding the truth behind layers and layers of paperwork

Recycling doesn't really exist. It's a concept and an actionable task of course, but in reality we all know that only 9% of "recyclable" materials have ever been actually recycled. We also know that recycling was a marketing scheme that companies poured literal billions of dollars on promoting to distract from the fact that recycling is just a marketing campaign that doesn't actually exist.

That. is. dystopian. 🤬

That's pathetic.

That can’t be legal.

Support the movement called "Right to use the products we bought".

SEND THAT GARBAGE TO THE ELECTRONICS RECYCLING

Other indicators? Almost everything. Pick an industry. Pick an aspect of modern life. Any of them at random. They're all in some way corrupted by profit seeking and corporate interests and could all be improved for the vast majority of people with a bit of investment in infrastructure, social safety nets, industry regulation, or wealth redistribution.

@@johnwrath3612 And don't tell them about the few things that aren't lest they get Ideas

They always have been.

Captured? Western politics is capitalism, has been for a long time.

​@@PiatificationThat's how it started?

Sorry say what now? That sounds a little over dramatic

@@MrJimheerenYou sound a little underdramatic

@@MrJimheeren Imagine necessary medical equipment and basic household tools falling apart after a few years or only a decade of use. Depending on their disability, they might not be able to reinstall something new, or get insurance to help. Not to mention, disabled people tend not to be hired in high-paying and stable jobs, because their work is undervalued (even though it isn't legal in the US). They may not be able to afford to replace their necessities that often, even if they somehow qualify for disability payments.

@@MrJimheeren Found the person who has never experienced a meaningful struggle.

@@MrJimheeren The disable shouldn’t have to justify their disability to anyone but yet this is a perfect example of how we have to… I live with TBI, CP and an autoimmune disorder. I have a deficit on my right side, with limited use of my dominant hand. • I can’t work key pad buttons without difficulty. Making it difficult for me to use most modern appliances (recently found out there is no washer/dryer currently on the market I can operate. I know this because I’ve called every major manufacturer) • LED lights can cause me extreme pain due to my brain injury (about 5.3 million people in America alone live with TBI) I take medications to help with the issue caused from LEDs but they do cause other health issues. Mainly problems with my kidneys that has resulted in three surgeries so far. My partner and I would guess the household carbon footprint has increased since everything has switched over to LEDs. All TVs and monitors are now LED only, all appliances have integrated LEDs and a point will come when what we have now will need to be replaced. At the moment we leave our windows bare to let the most light it, which increases our energy bills. • But since blinds with pull cords have been banned, we don’t have any windows covers because we couldn’t replace the old mini blinds. • I’m unable to drive because the starting cost for adaptive driving equipment and training is around $10,000 and must be installed in a new vehicle because none of the equipment can be used with older vehicles. • Because of the limited use of my hand and lack of muscle development I require specific style bra. The move to fast fashion has more and more brands eliminate accessible styles and fits. I now have to have my bras custom made. Price starts at $500. I can keep going. Haven’t even gotten to shoes. Have one pair that I’m able to walk in comfortably and I haven’t been able to find anywhere to get them repaired. I’ve even offered to pay to send them back to the manufacture. Company said they no longer do repairs.

Don’t approve of referring to your Mom as bitch but wow. What tip is she on?

That is an incredible reaction. One I see in a lot of older folks.

Slave mentality

That’s capitalism baby 😂

Nope. Americans have been brainwashed into worshipping capitalism and corporations. Therefore, they believe that anything that makes more money for corporations, even at the expense of themselves as consumers, is the “right” thing.

Plus farming equipment tends to be on the big side so getting to the dealership could mean having someone pick it up from the farm. I doubt that is done for free. Being able to fix it onsite and by yourself is just practical.

I’m hoping things like easier to access consumer level 3d printers and cnc machines will help with this, but it shouldn’t be like that.

@@truckerdave8465 I wish I had access to stuff like that. Could be so useful. There are so many flimsy plastic and metal parts.

That is just next level scummy. I'm so sorry you have to deal with this.

As a caregiver, I've often wondered if there was something going on with in store ride-on carts because there are NEVER enough at the stores for everyone who needs one. But look at what a lucrative business Ride on scooters is. Probably not planned but no one is doing anything about it and it's the people who really need those devices and their caregivers that end up paying the price. Truly shameful in my opinion.

THIS

Luddites were industrial terrorists. You have expressed Luddite sentiments. Welcome to the watchlist!

I have a drawer full of off brand controllers. 10 broken ones, all broke in the exact same way, and 1 from probably 2 decades ago that still works. Despite it being worn down as you would imagine. Even more insidious, I've found a way on the internet to fix half of the broken controllers, but only for a month at a time. So every month, I open it up, repeat the simple but time consuming process, and it once again functions. But only for a month. Which coincidentally, or not, is the same amount of time it functioned before it originally broke. It's honestly infuriating, and good to know I'm not an unhinged conspiracy theorist, or the most unlucky person on the planet.

Any Green New Deal that matters will include *Right to Repair* and an end to Planned Obsolescence. *Yes, this is Degrowth.* No, I don't care that your stonks will hate living within our planetary means.

​@@dishonoredundeadisn't it amazing how joystick drift suddenly became a huge problem within the last 10 years? Weird, really weird how that suddenly happened

Open Access is one of the greatest things. It’s why I’m so anti long copyright term. It’s antithetical to all things human.

Bullshit. Them bitches last a good five years if you don't use it as a hammer. Actually, just realized 2014 means it was a 6, it makes sense then. But you might as well have used a Galaxy Note 7 as your example of why Samsung is (genuinely) a worse company.

I got coerced into getting an iPhone a few months back and I fucking hate it.

You guys/gayls/whatever can thank all of the very many tech writers and influencers who are OH SO TOTALLY NOT Apple and Sony fanboys.

Stories like this is why I have never owned an iphone. Sadly android phones are using the same tricks now.

I hope you managed to remove your phone # from the imessage system. After my iphone died this last summer, I put my SIM card back in my old Android, little did I know that Apple's proprietary imessage system was capturing all of my inbound text messages so that I didn't receive them. It wasn't until my mom emailed me to ask why I wasn't responding to any of her texts that I discovered what was going on. My grandpa had been hospitalized and I had no idea because Apple had devoted their time and effort to figuring out how to covertly punish me for switching to an Android phone. I spent hours (over the course of several weeks) trying to restore those captured messages--or even to just access them--and I never could. Every method was stymied by Apple's insistence that you had to have another Apple device to gain access. After that experience, I will never in my life spend another cent on any Apple product, and I would discourage anyone else from doing it either. That company will knife you in the back and try to charge you for bleeding on their shoes.

Yeah, I'm sorry but the Instapot example didn't sound particularly convincing to me. I'm not invested enough to dig around for information, but there are many, many multiple reasons any company might fail that don't involve their product being too... good.

​@@curiousabout1they never said that was the reason

​@@Nixahmahe says it in the video

I'm surprised they went under, when I worked at Kohls it felt like I sold 20 of em a day lmao

@@curiousabout1 You and @satansbarman can always argue with their sources, which cite a marketing professor from UPenn named Barbara Kahn. The line "They don’t need another Peloton. They don’t need these things that they already bought," comes verbatim from the Seattle Times source. They also cite Smrity Randhawa, a professor of clinical accounting from University of Southern California, that defines Instapot products as "durables," items that don't usually need to be bought often because they last. This is combined with the drop in multi-cooker sales in the past year or so. It's hard not to see their durability and widespread use as a significant contributing factor to their non-profitability.

Same.

"you will own nothing and like it"

This is why i hope my old dumb pronter never dies. The idea of having to pay a subscription to print makes me want to vomit.

Software was just the easiest thing to turn into subscriptions; literally EVERYTHING is becoming like that. There are frigging CLOTHES that are now subscription-based somehow‽‽‽ 🤨 Some really egregious examples are a motorcycle safety-vest and helmet that are subscription-based and won't inflate if they detect the monthly-fee isn't up to date. There are numerous videos of Chinese rental e-bikes suddenly locking the wheels and flipping the rider because the per-minute timer ran out. 🤦

The concept should be officially recognized as a sin

It works because capitalists have no shame at all.

At this point, we're just one step away from what happens in South Africa, where private contractors send saboteurs to damage or steal power grid infrastructure so they can keep getting contracts to fix the power stations. Just one reason why the country has permanent issues delivering power and has to institute scheduled "load shedding" to most cities and regions so they don't completely collapse the already constantly-malfunctioning power grid (though obviously suburbs where ministers and presidents live are exempt).

Really cause ours never works because we have to clean it every couple of days

Thats true but i dont think thats planned obsolescence. Thats a monopolized repair market. Thats right to repair.

It's almost like you learned that from the last video on this channel...

Louis Rossman as someone else pointed out.

I have never heard it associated with the right, it's bi-partisan. In the US, usually things that are anti-companies being abusive are left and libertarian things are right. it's both, whereas this is a funny one because it's both libertarian and anti-libertarian, it's libertarian in the old sense, not the neocon sense

It might be associated with the right because farmers are big proponents of it. "Why do I need to pay someone to fix my tractor when I can do it?"

There's a few cringey right wingers in the discord(like every chat room to ever exist) but other than that it is a policy proposal that has always had bipartisan support among voters. It's the representatives we vote in that fucking suck.

The Republican elected has always been pro-business, but the competitiveness of these companies need to be curbed. This GOP (and some Democrats) turns a blind eye to Corporate Capitalist abuse and the consequences fall on taxpaying American consumers. People are sick of all of them.

I mean, there are probably plenty of consumers on the right that support the right to repair but the people they vote in and champion are so pro business that they'll never actually enact it, so their actions don't line up with their stated desires. Plus, most people on the right think most companies are run by socialists so if they claim to be for the right to repair, it's less about opposing shitty corporate practices and more about fighting the left and their own personal inconvenience. The big exception to this are farmers, but they don't give a shit about swappable phone batteries and care more about oligopolies of farming equipment manufacturers screwing them over. It's also worth noting that right wingers will discuss how criminal planned obselecense is and wanting regulation while also supporting businesses treating their workers like shit, creating massive amounts of pollution, and discriminating against people based on race/gender/sexuality in the name of a free market. So they don't genuinely care about regulation and consumer protections unless it means their phone runs a bit slow.

You're the first name I thought of seeing the video title. Appreciate what you do.

This is informative, and unfortunate

I think more people are aware it was just in more than realized

We might be losing here in the US, but the EU keeps winning small victories. With luck, those successes will trickle down to other countries as most corporations only want to make one model. We're seeing it with USB-C on the iPhone, but there's still so much that needs to be, and can be done.

Just about to link your page in comments when you show up!

never in the history of Feudal society had anyone innovated anything. They didn't even innovate themselves into capitalism in fact!

Thats crazy

Proves that economists were a mistake.

Considering just about all meaningful research programs are largely tax funded (then purchased and trademarked by some company, usually)... I would say innovation appears impossible FOR capitalism. Socialism innovates and then capitalism exploits it.

Economics is generally a type of propiganda the ultra rich and corps sponsor, and you went off message. Definitions were opposite in the past. A free market was a way to prevent profit, as profit was a tax of the unproductive on the productive. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/jIh3a66Bh2yZuGw.html

It feels like living in a Douglass Addams novel. Soon we will need to pay a subscription to unlock our towels.

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself I mean isn't that what coin operated laundry is?

Absolutely no depth they wont sink to for cash..

My car broke down; the AA (the UK Automobile Association) sent a mechanic to pick it up, take it to the garage and give me a ride home. He was in a brand-new Ford truck and we got talking about it. He told me it had software that disabled the engine if you didn't take it to a Ford dealer to get it serviced at the specified interval. When it arrived, the AA workshop manager told the mechanics to find out how that 'disable' feature worked and override it. It took them an hour or so, apparently.

I laughed at that too. If you blink you miss it

You could say it's the... cream of the crop.

"Corned cream" and "corn cream" are two different things but I suggest you don't think too much about that.

@@gregmark1688 I'm gonna need you to put that sentence back in your mouth please

@@suchnothing Can't put the corn cream paste back in the tube, my friend.

I think they tend to be more like mops and dust-cloths, but your point still stands fully.

What's crazier is just how in this case the obvious longer lasting cheaper over time choice is usually in the same isle of the store, and probably was known to you as a kid.

Speaking of jewelry! Another infuriating habit of stores and manufacturers is to not list the materials of any product they make. Manufacturers of low end jewelry can't even be bothered to tell you what stone they put in it (or if it even is stone, half the time), let alone what metal they used.

I thought diamonds are forever?

@@daTribbleMakeryeah... jewelry seems like a weird item to become obsolete

Finally, an Aquamarine that lasts for more than three weeks!! (sorry, just joking- I understand what you're saying)

@@jrnichols Thank you for taking the time to check out my work!

Smart phones really should come to be more in line with PCs in my opinion. More modular essentially. Easy to attach and detach parts like the camera, audio input/output, screen, cpu/gpu, and memory. With a market that caters to tiers. If you need a great camera buy and attach a megapixel beast, if you game on your phone, buy a high end cpu/gpu combo, but like a pc, if you just need something basic or dont need some of the features at all, you don't have to pay for them

​@left4twenty God I would love that. I want a high capacity hard drive and a 3.5mm audio jack. I don't need a 83 million mega pixel camera. I don't need a 14 inch screen.

​@@robertgarside3827the screen is the one part I can't quite figure in my mind, because the board and the screen and the shell are all kind of interlinked currently, so the screen size kind of dictates the layout of the board and the size of the shell. There would almost have to be legislation to make a standard board/shell size, that all the modules would need to be designed to fit together with I guess though if screen/board/shell are all considered the base that every other module attaches too, then it ends up just being the connectors that need to be standardized, like how usb became standard Im sure theres a way to get it done efficiently and economically, but im no engineer so im not 100% on how lol

@@left4twenty They did make a phone like that. It had to use 5 year old tech to be reliable additions. Modern phones have combined CPU GPU and Memory, so you'd have to replace those as one piece. Audio devices are mostly stable over time, we had an update nearly a decade ago from wired to bluetooth. Screen upgrades require stronger CPU/GPU/Memorry upgrades. Lower end CPU/GPU combos are sold, but those are mid range phones or cheaper, and cellphones can get top end for only $50 a month. Nearly all the features you mentioned are tied to CPU/GPU/Memory. The option is basically, buy something nice if you need it or buy something cheep. And if you want a powerful battery you have to optimize the layout for all those things which leads us back to where we currently are.

Right? I just want a music player with a large storage capacity. Why should I buy a phone for that?

I was thinking of writing the same thing. I'm a fan of both channels, so I wouldn't want to spark some kind of controversy.

Eh. The cartel was fining internally producers that were making bulbs that lasted too long. Sure they can and were arguing that it's about reduced lumen per watts. But then why not fine them on that instead? AFAIK they weren't either fining producer that were making lightbulb that failed too soon

Yep, people should probably let go of that example. The cartel was certainly bad, and industry colluding to divide the global market into regional monopolies is also bad, but the specific example of making lightbulbs last a shorter lifespan is bunk.

It's so weird that they talk about it in this episode, because it came up in my search results recently. I was searching for stuff about light bulbs, but I think I was trying to find out what kind of cement is used to attach the base, and the wiki for the Phoebus Cartel came up.

Yep, dissapointing to see SMN going on about this when Technology Connections' video was so recent and pretty popular.

Can you please repeat this to the couple of people commenting on here claiming that companies are good and have valid reason for doing what they do?

"Waterproofing" was such an absurd argument anyway. There are plenty of waterproof devices with user-swappable batteries/other parts. _This is why o-rings exist!_ 🙄 Edit: I just remembered that an example of a waterproof device with user-swappable batteries was actually shown at 19:25 😅

I'd love to have a phone with replacable battery, the ability to use texting apps and call but without the ability to ever know my location

The "waterproofing" excuse for headphone jacks was also asinine. Especially since the removal of the headphone jack meant now you're stuck using wireless headphones which also don't have replaceable batteries.

@@fluffycritteryou can still use wired headphones. It’s just you have to find ones that plug into the charging port instead of the almost universally used headphone jack, because that’s completely reasonable.

I wonder if it taste like grass

Those were all pre filmed. He changed his shirt 40 times in 1 day years ago when he started and downed 40 gallons of it in 12 hours of filming.

I came to the comments looking for this

Cody the throat goat

The frequency of their AG1 sponsorships (and Cody deep throating a bottle of the stuff) make me genuinely worried for his health lol.

Many societies and religions throughout history have considered it immoral and in some cases even made it illegal to charge interest on debts. But in our current society, debt and interest payments are just expected. It's so wild to think about the kinds of things that powerful and greedy grifters have managed to convince us is normal and fine.

@@suchnothing Exactly! Throughout history, interest was strongly discouraged and often downright illegal. Now, it is the norm: grow or go bankrupt. That is how we end up with planned obsolescence. Greedy grifters indeed, but they have to be to survive this crazy rat race.

Pretty sure most religions agree that usury is a sin. But conservatives are happy to gloss over that fact.

@@LarsaXL So true! Christianity, Judaism, the Islam, the ancient Greek philosophers and Buddhism all condemn usury. Yet our entire modern finance relies on it. What could possibly go wrong?

Commenters 100% caused this. It's just too funny watching him try to hold it down 😂 the only advert I purposefully watch

The unbridled aggression he brings to the ad reads really speaks to how ridiculous the concept is but I'm not gonna complain as long as someone is happy and paying. Doesn't mean I'm gonna drink vitamins I already have healthy enough piss.

So....stay with me here.....does that mean Cody is a throat goat?🥵

​@@pr0ntabwait. Do you.... Do you drink the piss? 😮

I still love how hard he has to act like it's easy and totally not gross to chug an entire bottle of it.

A novel, never-before-seen experience!

If he had to go through the ordeal of recording it, it's only fair that we suck it up and watch.

Isn't that why we come to his channel? To torture ourselves?

I love this show, but it's terribly depressing most of the time. The podcast is less of a downer.

That's the Showdy

I watch him for cats. I don't watch the computer stuff.

I recognized him from his videos during the Pandemic, but had forgotten his name. Thanks!

I see pickup trucks in the apartment parking lot and it’s horrible. Space is already very limited. And we live in the suburbs. What are you picking up with that?!

They are also priced so high that most ordinary people will have a car loan for eight years or more, meaning that by the time they have paid for their car, it is either in the junk yard or on the way there.

They would argue that they need a pickup truck to pick up groceries! Another funny reason people get trucks is because they claim to use them for camping/recreation, when in reality it is only a tool to get to-and-from work... Hopefully public transit will reach the suburbs one day.@@nervousbreakdown711

The era of renting our material possessions is upon us! Wanna get an education, car, home, or life-saving surgery? Have fun with a lifetime of being indebted to people you have never met!@@generationofswine-ge5rw

Cars becoming bigger is not planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence would be cars not lasting as long, and right now, cars last longer than they ever have. Between 1995 and 2015, the average age of cars on the road went from about 8.5 years to 11.5 years. Cars are not made like they used to be made, and that is a good thing (at least when it comes to longevity and passenger / driver safety; pedestrian safety is another story).

She is smart.

Not a troll question: what could a company with a good product like say Instapot have done to not go bankrupt? You don’t go bankrupt when your sales have plateaued, you go bankrupt when you can’t keep the lights on. I’m not trying to be difficult, i honestly just have trouble imagining life without capitalism

@@tamelo

It's a good question.

YOUR COMMENT IS SOOOOOOOOOO BOOMERPHOBIC!

That's almost the first ever, isn't it? I sure don't remember it happening before, unless you count Warmbo or Katy, which, obviously we don't.

i have never seen it happen and i've seen almost every episode since the channel inceptiopn@@gregmark1688

I was gonna give ya points for keeping her off the grid until I read "bluetooth".... sigh

@@daTribbleMaker wdym? I don’t know what’s wrong with Bluetooth. Gotta play my music somehow

Bluetooth is the only modernization older cars need imo.

now I am serious.. no bs... you do know bluetooth can be hacked and monitored/controlled right? Easier than hacking your remote control. And no reynold's wrap needed for this is a fact.

Right there with you bro. Unfortunately the vast majority of consumers consider old cars to be junk, and scrap things like old Mercs, Toyotas and Volvos, despite them being perfectly repairable 80% of the time. I don't know what I'm going to do when the '80s and '90s made-to-last Euros and Jap cars become too hard to find. Electric resto-mods are quickly becoming my last hope for the future.

That wasn't about planne4d obsolescence - that's because MS/Sony/Nintendo or anyone who makes a console has to go overboard with anti-piracy bullsh!t to over-prove to third parties they did everything to stop it from possibly happening, or the 3rd parties get very triggered like petulant little children wearing diapers full of mess.

Isolation of electric cords degrades over time, it's probably ok to buy a new hairdryer.

​@@mipmipmipmipmipwe have an old iron whose power cord is insulated by braided fabric, doesn't degrade :)

The irony is there is a thriving Maker Movement these days, even in hobbyist electronics with a whole new generation of Microcontrollers. RadioShack could and should have been the backbone of it, but they failed much like Sears failed to be Amazon.

I think you are mistaken... that's convalescence. ;)

You can still buy some pretty long-lasting appliances if you want. You'll just be paying $5-10k for your fridge instead of $800. And you generally won't find them on the floor at your local appliance store because the vast majority of people can't afford that (or just won't). Building cheap in order to sell cheap is not planned obsolescence. If you buy a fridge with a 3 year warranty and it breaks down in 7 years, that's not because it was designed to break down in 3 years - its because it was designed to have an $800 price point. People seem to ignore the "planned" qualifier of planned obsolescence. If your phone gets slower over the course of 5 years because you keep loading it down with newer, larger updates and adding in more apps that leave junk running in the background then that's just how it is. If your phone gets slower over the course of 5 years because Apple intentionally added some code that amounts to "if age > 5 then just idle for 2 seconds every time the user tries to load an app", that's Apple _planning_ to make your phone slower. As with many things, the real difference is in the intent. Was that compressor component in your fridge with the 7 year lifespan chosen because it has a 7 year lifespan, or was it chosen because its $2 cheaper than the 10 year equivalent and that lets the manufacturer reduce the sticker price by $20 after factoring in markups and whatnot? The former is planned obsolescence and is all-around bad for everyone (except the manufacturer). The latter has its own problems but it also has the benefit of consumers who couldn't afford a $1000 price point maybe being able to justify a $980 price point. Maybe a 2% difference is too small to matter but repeat that process for another 6 or 7 components and perhaps you now have an $800 price point despite your fridge only having an average lifespan of 5 years rather than 7. 20% makes a huge difference for a lot of people. That's a net positive for society. And the manufacturer is still only providing a 3 year warranty so the difference between a 5 and a 7 year average is no skin off their backs either. Both sides win, at least in the short term. In the long term the people who buy the $800 fridge rather than the $1000 one are going to be worse off as they'll have to replace more often (especially if they could afford the $1000 and just decided to be cheap) but being able to refrigerate your food is a pretty short-term need in the modern world. Having to wait another 6 months to save up that extra 20% just isn't always a viable option.

​@@altragyadda yadda you windbag bootlicker save it for your BA final

@@altrag​​⁠​⁠that’s a lot of words to say that you believe that even wjen productivity has gone trough the roof the last several decades, and manufacturing has gone cheaper, appliances that once lasted half a lifetime now cost the same and last a couple of years, and that’s how it works. How delusional you have to be? Yeah sure the same brand that made the microwave we had in our family for 30 years is making shit, because the non-shit cost 20x more,and thats ok

@@altrag: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

Are you willing to share what brand of phone you picked? I need a new phone and I’m struggling to sort through all these reviews that seem sponsored but don’t explicitly say they are

@@Just_One_Tree oppo a16 is the one we got

Eh it can be better for the engine and gas but you will lose your starter faster

same here, all of my pants and shorts have a crotch/thigh issue where those areas wear away first, I'm lucky that my denim shorts are an easy fix by using fabric patches and reinforcement stitching/visible mending to hold it in place (had some cotton drill/duck canvas scraps on hand so I'm seeing how long that lasts) because the knitwear is a bit more difficult. I've been putting off darning at least one pair of socks Getting to the point where buying fabric and making clothes from scratch would _almost_ be cheaper because you buy less clothes overall and can use leftover cabbage/scraps for repairs

Same as well...ive finally had to get rid of some jeans I've had for like, ten years. But the new underwear I've bought recently are falling apart...too bad our local thrift store sucks..they need to overhaul the building and staff...also my jeans and shirts went through all sorts of hell commercial fishing and firewood gathering..I haven't had to buy clothes in years..

@@lazyperfectionist3978 I've figured out with jeans, if you can buy two similar pairs then turn one into shorts when they start to go at the crotch/thighs, you should have enough similar coloured denim from the lower legs to patch the thighs/crotch of both pairs without it being super noticeable. I'm a big fan of visible mending but there's a limit and super obvious patches or colourful embroidery focused around the crotch/thighs is that limit for me at least

Try reigning champ brand.

@@DH-og5yr Over $100 for ONE shirt? If I had that kind of money I wouldn't have to darn my socks.

This is so fucking true and so damn infuriating, and not only with headlights, I bought a old motorcycle couple of months ago and read it's instruction manual, I was astounded of how they thought of everything back then in order for it to be more easily fixable and also put all the information you need to fix something yourself inside the manual, nowadays manuals are feel like they are made for dumb people, they only tell you how to turn on/off and little more

From now on I just want old cars/motorcycles, crazy durable, easily repairable and very personalisable, new vehicles are shit in comparison

That's cool... but are there applications to run on the OS, that do the things that people commonly do with their phones....?

The non-tech people's ideas about "hacking" are so silly so as to make me want to cry and yell at clouds. Because we all know that no one could ever maliciously modify a part before it got to the "approved vendor", no one could get a job at an approved vendor to do bad things, and no one could sneak under your car in the middle of the night or in the grocery parking lot if they wanted to hack it. No siree - it only could happen at an independent shop with a compatible part. Surrre...

Seems like the book reference was closer then we realize. An act of "rebellion" which got people to conform in a different way.

Apple has _always_ had that mentality. It was just less noticeable when they were the "little guy", especially when the dominant player (Microsoft) had so many issues of their own for people to complain about. MS kind of cleaned up their act in the mid-late aughts (though they've arguably been backsliding again ever since) but that didn't really matter (to Apple) as they were targeting the new smartphone market they'd just invented and using the positive PR they got from that to drive sales of their Mac offerings. Macs were (and still are) kind of terrible, but they come with that well-loved fruit logo rather than the much-despised Windows logo so they sell super well regardless of their extremely high price point and barely-above-average functionality.

Removing the audio jack port was a big slap in the face, forcing customers into only getting expensive wireless earphones or lightning earpods, or buying the audio jack adapter - the feature that used to be standard as now extra. It was already bad enough that everything for iPhones is always way more expensive than for other phones.

There was a time when I used to look forward to the day I could afford an apple product and was jealous of the people who could. Following the tech news about the "developments" in their products has made me do a 180 on that view. I can now afford an iPhone but I refuse to buy it. This is one of the reasons I'm glad I don't live in the US or the Europe where an iPhone is a societal standard and using an Android instead would make you a weirdo.

*stares into the nightmare void that is capitalism*

VW Jetta guy here, do you know which year???

@@Pete_xp Mine's a 2016, and I know that's after whatever the cutoff year is.

Why do you need computer codes to fix brakes

@@CampingforCool41 As it was explained to me, if you compress the cylinders without putting the onboard computer in Maintenance Mode, it thinks the brakes have failed and won't let the car start until the codes are cleared. .......................... really hate onboard computers.

One of their friends from Cracked works for JO. I suspect they're choosing this over Oliver so they can attack companies without working so much about corporate sponsorship revenue like JO has too

Mad wasn't just humor, it was keen political and social insight...

FIRST: LET's ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: YOU ARE WATCHING A SHOW BASED ON A CAPITALIST WET DREAM!! Second... there is no second in Captialism you "Kumbaya" singin muthafu..

Accursed Farms' Ross did a video on that about Video Games.

That is a very convenient

The product to service switch. They don't want to sell you a product of a video game that you buy once, they want to you have you renting that game for as long as you live, to the point that they'll keep re-releasing games on newer platforms, even if they perform worse than on older consoles. It's just another squeeze for money and until people push back enough, it will keep going this way. There's cars now where car seat warmers or other stuff will NOT work unless you pay monthly. It will keep happening as long as people don't push back.

Yes, and the fact that this channel just went with the default take on these bulbs really damages the likely viable argument it has.

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/spJodqlwb4Gez40.html for the lazy

@@ajbXYZcool I completely agree. I'm used to a higher standard and I hope he'll address it

I'm really, really glad to see there's been a number of people mentioning that Technology Connections video in the comments. It's a great mix of engineering explanation and debunking. For those who haven't watched it (and come on, it's shorter than this one, just go watch it): the Centennial Bulb isn't a good example of a "well-made product not hit by planned obsolescence" because, well, it glows so dimly that it's unusable as a lighting source. The rate of filament degradation is related to the temperature, temperature is related to how much power is being pushed through it. If the temp doesn't get high enough to start vaporizing the outer layers of the filament then it stays intact... but it means that the light is extremely dim. Power efficiency of how much light you get (lumens) per watt is also much worse than if you run at a higher temperature.

Yes!

Wish they would've said his name and just a short bit on how hard he's been fighting for Right to Repair, Louis is fighting the good fight

Government is kinda in on it kiddo. Not being a conspiracy theorist here.. but until you get lobbyists out of the picture at least as they are now (from hormone blockers to car manufacturers even down to coffin makers) they are in it and what you may feel good about buying or supporting today you may be apologizing for doing so tomorrow.

I learned about planned obsolescence from The Brave Little Toaster goes to Mars

@@terpsidance. better educated learning about it there than learning on it here.

@@daTribbleMaker what exactly are you trying to say here?

Well then, that's an Instant Pot company problem, as they could've just, y'know, *not* sold their company to greedy scumbags.

@@HealyHQ You don't always get a choice. We require companies to maximize profits by law if they are publicly traded. Once you start selling stock, you're obligated to the shareholders, not to ethics.

Agreed. At least you know what you are in for ballpark-wise here. I have never seen a "number 3 will shock you" yet..

A washcloth and a drying rack costs even less, uses less water, creates less waste, and does a better job

Speaking as someone who has washed dishes by hand for 20+ years, it's a giant fucking waste of time. Deep regret, wish I had a dishwasher sooner. It's worth the cost

​@@gatergates8813it takes you more time, takes more water and soap, and does a worse job, actually

​@@gatergates8813 Dishwashers are actually very water efficient. You use WAY more water washing the equivalent amount of dishes by hand. Common misconception though.

​​@@GoldenPantaloonsyou can use less water washing by hand if you fill the sink with soapy water, wash, then fill the sink with water and rinse. If you wash dishes under running water from the tap, then you can use more water. It's a common misconception that use of dishwashers is inherently more water efficient. And of course doesn't take into account electricity usage, nor production of the unit, and it's later disposal.

Yes exactly....it was all I could think while Cody was talking about it...

Very true. I hate that it's the go-to example for so many people.

Yes! Thank you for bringing up Technology Connections great vid about the Pheobus Cartel! The light bulbs prior to the regulation used more watts to produce less light whose lumens would reduce greatly over time.Generally inefficient and less viable than a shorter life span bulb with better energy efficiency and light.

While might be true they kept that around for decades after tungsten was done away with.

Thank you for mentioning this! He also references that 1901 Centennial lightbulb. Its longevity has almost everything to do with the fact that it is terrible at its intended purpose, which is being a lightbulb that produces light.

@banquetoftheleviathan1404 Is or was the extinction of the dinosaurs a negative for mankind

​​@@ratmations8306We wouldnt have existed if those ecological niches dinosaurs filled, stayed filled. Or the niches that later mammals created filling them, and modern birds. Like flowering plants in particular! Primates are very fruit oriented! You can see this concept clearly in Australia. Before the people brought the dingoes, the whole ecosystem from the top down was built on marsupials, who spend FAR more energy in the long run giving birth earlier and raising their young for a few years instead of a few seasons or, at a deer's size, a year at most. Mice have been introduced and are absolutely devistating the marsupial rodents, and the fox problem in tasmania, etc.. None of it would be possible if there was still bracheosaurs eating trees, compys eating eggs and small critters, and tricerotops eating all the bushes. There was no reason for a bush to fruit and berry if the whole branch was a write-off if it leafed too much. The conclusion to draw from this is CLEARLY that dinosaurs CAUSED CAPITALISM!!! xD

Exactly !!! Capitalism relies on problems so it can sell temporary solutions. It is negative in every facet of its creation and implementation.

@@ratmations8306yes because i think they are cool and would like to shake their hand

Racism, sexism, war?

It's Corn Cream. Totally different

It's a coincidence. Union does not guarantee quality, it's often usually the opposite. Non-union workers work better because they have to earn their place whereas unions protect lazy and bad workers. My grandfather worked in a Chrysler assembly plant during the 70s and he has many stories about the crap he and his coworkers pulled knowing the union wouldn't let Chrysler take any action against them. My 2022 Subaru (non-union) is better built than a family member's 2022 Chevy (UAW).

​​@@bwofficial1776you're comparing different markets. My bike and truck are both American. You're comparing a Japanese import to a domestic vehicle. A car from a country notorious for reliability regardless of unionization. My truck is better put together mechanically, more reliable, and has fewer problems despite both vehicles being cared for as per their manuals and despite my truck having been on the earth longer than my own mother has. Also so what. You shouldn't get fired for not being a robot who obeys every whim of a company with a stick so far up your ass youre being puppeted by a tree. That's how you get Amazon and Tesla

So true! Taylor nor McDonald’s care because that cost just goes to the franchisee since McDonalds is just a real estate company.

@@Emancipatriot Well, the LITERAL clown spokesman was marketing to children because you hook a customer for life if you get them before they're 5 (check out a baby's tongue : all sorts of taste buds there, most die if they're not stimulated). The clown had to go when a consumer advocacy group was making progress... thats why then, your kid could play at a playground in their buildings, big, BIG tall sign telling you it was there. Playing makes you hungry...

@@arcanondrum6543 although a different subject, you’re not wrong.

@@Emancipatriot I hear you but #1. You brought up the clown company. #2. The video and this thread was about Profit growth, "and to hell with the real costs". So in that sense, children mean as little to corporations as pollution and resource depletion.

@@arcanondrum6543 money and share holders is all that matters. Growth at all costs like Cody said

Lol. Current refrigerator life span is 3-10yrs.

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Where is Natalie posting now? I hope she puts out a community post to inform UKposts only subscribers

@@dbteepo86Nebula, I think

Natalie walked so Cody could sniff glue and talk to a puppet

She still posts but it's only the longer elaborate stuff. She posted an almost 2-hour video 5 months ago structured around the podcast "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling."

@@dbteepo86 She's still posting regularly, in the form of "tangent" videos (which are basically lower-production videos in the mold of her old response videos,) monthly on Patreon. (She's done videos on New Atheism, GamerGate, Barbie, Parasocial relationships, Psychedelics, and many other things.) She's still working on the longer highly-produced videos, but they're just coming out significantly less often.

Lmao same! Map Men have pretty good ads, too

Lol I am a patron and I still like to come watch the episodes once they release on UKposts because of how creative or out there the ads are sometimes

Yes. Many true fans who can afford it will sign up.