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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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Oh yeah, suddenly wealth will disappear... And greed too...

Laughable

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You infer.

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Listen

Are you willing to murder your way to the top? Are you willing to sacrifice everything to make it to the top?

Are you?

No, because if you could, you would have done it already, you would be part of the "club", already

That's the difference, between you, and them

Gov or no gov is irrelevant

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So you acknowledge that, though it might not make things worse, there is no way government could possibly make things better?

Thus there is no justification for its existence.