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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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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

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Can't be responsible for your own decisions?

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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.