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Planned obsooescence is a time bomb in products, particularly electronics by [Apple](/s/crApple). It means deliberately making a device become defunct sooner and components last for a shorter time. It is a tactic to make people purchase their next product sooner (after the deliberately shortened lifespan of their previous product expired). # Should planned obsolescence be **outlawed?**

Planned obsooescence is a time bomb in products, particularly electronics by .

It means deliberately making a device become defunct sooner and components last for a shorter time.

It is a tactic to make people purchase their next product sooner (after the deliberately shortened lifespan of their previous product expired).

Should planned obsolescence be outlawed?

No.
Yes, it should be outlawed.

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Your informed decision based on what?

Remember, free market = no gov intervention

Which means false advertizing is ok, everything goes, and nobody is required to put any relevant informations or warning on any given product...

And of course, no control over what product gets into the national market, no tariffs, no regulation, no nothing, it's total open borders for any product/goods...

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Which means false advertizing is ok, everything goes

Wrong.

False advertising is fraud. Fraud is a real, self-evident crime. Real crime is solved by rope.

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No government regulation no government intervention

That's what you want, that's what you get

You can't have it both ways

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Why the fuck would I want it the other way? Don't know about you but I'm an adult capable of making and acting on adult decisions, like using rope to solve problems, and government intervention is the only thing getting in the way. I don't need my Mommy State to protect me.