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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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>Too many laws and regulations already.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4742712/Why-chickens-washed-chlorine.html

>Now whistleblower farmers have revealed the full horror of the suffering to The Mail on Sunday, including how: Tens of thousands of super-sized 'Frankenstein' birds are crammed in vast warehouses. The chickens, which weigh up to 9lb, often buckle under their weight and must live without natural sunlight. Chickens frequently die before they reach maturity and many are left covered in their own faeces, turning warehouses into vile breeding grounds for disease. Unlike in the UK and Europe, there are no minimum space requirements for breeding chickens in the US. America also does not have any rules governing lighting levels in the sheds and, crucially, its farms have no maximum allowed level of ammonia, which indicates how much urine and faecal matter is present. This means there is no limit on how much can fester inside the sheds.

There

No regulation

happy bleached chicken

[–] 1 pt

Shitty chicken tastes shitty. Free-range chicken, if available on the free market, will outcompete because it tastes better. It may have to cost more to the consumer, so when the consumer asks, why is your chicken so expensive, the answer is because it did not spend its life swimming in shit, and just like that the consumer has done his research, it's not that hard.

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False

Again that's magic thinking, that's whishful thinking, it's not true

It's not always the best product that dominates the market, far from it

That idea that in a "free market" the best product will necessarily prevail is flat wrong

https://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/best-products-dont-always-win.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/05/magazine/why-the-best-doesn-t-always-win.html

https://www.walkersands.com/martech-2018-we-have-nearly-7000-solutions-and-more-challenges-than-ever/

>So when the consumer asks, why is your chicken so expensive

You simply tell him whatever the fuck you want there are no rules preventing you from doing so, no trust pal

Free market, and sheeeit

No gov intervention, no regulation, crooks get an autobahn

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You simply tell him whatever the fuck you want there are no rules preventing you from doing so

https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/131936/fa6534c7-e607-4615-b506-ef2e2b088970#cmnts

Also, if your chicken is actually the best, why say anything but the truth?

As vile and wrong as this is, as a consumer, it’s my duty to investigate the practices of the farmers and vendors and make my choices accordingly. It is my responsibility, not the government’s.

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And if you just can't for whatever reason?

Too bad?

Never occured to you that the chicken market can very well end up cornered like any given market?

...

It's ridiculous, that "free market" cult, it's too often bordering on magic thinking and intellectual lazyness

If hitler went full free market he would have given an autobahn to the international jewry

Can't be responsible for your own decisions?