#Not something is daughter grumbles about and he pointedly denies being real or being bad and needing fixing

[sizzleissues]

Planned/manufactured obsolescence is bad. You shouldn’t have to go to the manufacturer to repair broken items.

My father: But that’s how they make money. *continues explaining that this is just how it is now and really what everyone should do is just not buy from those companies or not be stupid enough to be tricked into bad deals where the product bricks itself after three years, he would know, he does business and has to deal with these companies all the time and everyone has to buy licenses nowadays to use a printer. And there’s nothing we can do about companies getting away with making shitty products, that’s just the way it is and he’s perfectly happy to let it keep going that way because he cannot visualise anything else even though he lived before it was so prevalent.*

Me: Yeah, i know. But can you admit it’s bad. Your phone made prior to this trend in business still works. Now an iPhone which costs 700x times the price bricks itself after three years. That’s bad.

Him: No. How will businesses make money?

Me: MAYBE BY SELLING GOOD LONG-LASTING PRODUCTS THAT DON’T END UP IN LANDFILLS AFTER TWENTY MINUTES OF USE