I still can’t believe how normalized not repairing your own things became in just a period of decades. My grandparents, now deceased, were born in the thirties. Repairing things is just what you did all the way up until their fifth decade, when it started to change. Even they noticed how they just went along with it over time, since technology got past what two former farm kids who grew up without electricity could easily understand.
Intentionally over-complicating a device so that it must be repaired (additional revenue) by a ‘professional’ that they approve of (additional revenue) with their own parts (additional revenue).
You might expect a company that makes easier-to-repair things to retain more customers, but ‘more customers’ is an incentive because it means more profit, but if you can get several more profit more directly by doing these shenanigans, then why wouldn’t unregulated capitalists go in that direction?
I still can’t believe how normalized not repairing your own things became in just a period of decades. My grandparents, now deceased, were born in the thirties. Repairing things is just what you did all the way up until their fifth decade, when it started to change. Even they noticed how they just went along with it over time, since technology got past what two former farm kids who grew up without electricity could easily understand.
Intentionally over-complicating a device so that it must be repaired (additional revenue) by a ‘professional’ that they approve of (additional revenue) with their own parts (additional revenue).
You might expect a company that makes easier-to-repair things to retain more customers, but ‘more customers’ is an incentive because it means more profit, but if you can get several more profit more directly by doing these shenanigans, then why wouldn’t unregulated capitalists go in that direction?