Except they're intentionally making things more difficult to repair. Gluing electronics to electricals and pairing device IDs for higher prices with no benefit to the end consumer. They're wasting lives on inferior products.
@@DanielHertz lmao room temp iq take. Knowing how and wanting to repair the things you buy makes you a hippy? Dude I agree it's so much better to go buy another $1000 phone instead of being able to just replace the screen myself!!!! Video is also retarded. No shit baseline products are better now, that's not even what the intro clip is arguing. They are also undeniably built to fail earlier.
This is true. I recommend learning how to fix things yourself, and doing due diligence before purchasing. If you're handy enough, you can own a TV that lasts over a decade. My living room projector has lasted 12 years, with nothing more than filter and bulb replacements. And if it fails, it's mostly repairable. Yeah, there may be issues with impossible to find chips, or damaged PCBs, or whatnot, but that's an outlying failure mode.
@@DanielHertz >Valid argument against planned obsolescence >Response: Some deviant of "iF yU dOnT lIKe iT dO iT yOurSElf 🤪🤪" Unlike you, people have jobs, and these jobs require equipments that can last until the sun explodes. If one of these equipments stops working and there's no other option than to buy another one because replacing it costs too much, that's called a bad product and it wastes the company's time and money.
These days you don’t have to push cars to start instead the display suddenly says MOTOR FAILURE and stops driving in the middle of the road and then when you send it to get fixed the mechanics can’t find anything wrong with it because it’s a tiny near impossible to find bug in the computer system’s programming
My parents went through a vacuum every two or three years. The only vacuums that held up back then would cost the equivalent to 5-10 of the disposable ones. Problem is nobody wants to spend bigger money one time. They're happy spending less money a dozen or more times over.
You can still buy solid metal vacuums that weigh as much as you did as a child, that have lifetime warranties and replacement parts are going to be available for decades. But nobody wants to buy them, so those companies have been dwindling. Heck, my $9000 projector from 2009 is still blasting an extremely bright 110" 1080p image after all this time, and that's because I didn't buy a crap product. It's not the highest resolution out there anymore, but it didn't fail on me. I would have spent about $800-1200 every few years if I bought a crap best buy grade projector. Now, I can only buy a new one from the same company if I ordered it through a Japanese broker, because they left the US market after a hundred cheap products at a fifth of the price overloaded our market, yet people complain while buying the junk repeatedly. We're driving ourselves into end-game capitalist hell on our own, all while whining about how we aren't able to buy cheaper, better products from companies that want to give us the bare minimum of what we think we want, for the highest profit margins.
Things are supposed to get better, sometime it would get worse because of world event, thats how it should be and thats how it was untill a while ago, now things are good but getting worse because some guy isn't getting paid enough to buy his 4th yacht
@@Emppu_T.worse how? Not arguing, genuinely curious. I got a new car like a year ago and pretty happy about it, but all in all it’s still just a car, like my previous one was from 20 years ago
Yes we have innovation. The problem remains thou, products are built to die. Take cell phones for example. Designed so you almost have to buy a new one every 3-4 years. I still have a nice vacuum from the 60s that works perfectly.
I think there are many aspects of this problem and depending on your pov it can seem better or worse or somewhere in-between. Something i have been trying to explain to people is how cheap video games are today, accounting for inflation videogames really did used to be equivalent to 120$ per game and they were generally much much shorter so the per hour of entertainment cost was way way higher. But does that relative cheapness of video games contribjte to the unfinished dlc cash shop nature of modern gaming? Maybe, but could you imagine the modern consumer today willing to lay 120$ for a video game? Even if it was fully finished and had no pay for extra options? I dont think that would fly. So just for video gamss its skrt of a little better one way a little worse another way.
Nope some stuff still is better and some stuff is crap. There's just much more crap these days and getting quality costs a pretty penny or is hard to get.
No. All of these wonderful advances in technology have made us lazy, complacent, sick, and isolated. I would happily exchange our current tech for a greater appreciation of life.
Seriously? The entire video is a false equivalence. Just because technology has progressed, does NOT mean that consumer products and/or goods have improved, or even that products haven't been intentionally made "worse", cheaper, less reliable, more prone to breakage and more difficult to repair, intentionally. Sure, you can DVR your favorite show, but your "smart" TV is literally spying on you and selling your private data, viewing habits, and in some cases even your conversations, etc. Try listening to music on your subscription plan without a network connection, or try accessing those digital movies if you lose your account, or better yet if the service you bought them on goes down, or shutters permanently. Your old purely mechanical car could get started with a bit of electrical tape and a clutch pop, while your new "electric" car can be remotely disabled with the push of a button, or programmed to take you somewhere that you don't want to go. The list goes on. your argument is cosmetic at best, poorly thought out, weak, and crumbles with even a surface level examination of your points. Did you take even 10 minutes to think about this? Are you even serious with this video?
Except they're intentionally making things more difficult to repair. Gluing electronics to electricals and pairing device IDs for higher prices with no benefit to the end consumer. They're wasting lives on inferior products.
Dont buy it then and hug a tree?
@@DanielHertz lmao room temp iq take. Knowing how and wanting to repair the things you buy makes you a hippy? Dude I agree it's so much better to go buy another $1000 phone instead of being able to just replace the screen myself!!!!
Video is also retarded. No shit baseline products are better now, that's not even what the intro clip is arguing. They are also undeniably built to fail earlier.
Absolutely, the decline of ownership
This is true. I recommend learning how to fix things yourself, and doing due diligence before purchasing.
If you're handy enough, you can own a TV that lasts over a decade. My living room projector has lasted 12 years, with nothing more than filter and bulb replacements. And if it fails, it's mostly repairable. Yeah, there may be issues with impossible to find chips, or damaged PCBs, or whatnot, but that's an outlying failure mode.
@@DanielHertz >Valid argument against planned obsolescence
>Response: Some deviant of "iF yU dOnT lIKe iT dO iT yOurSElf 🤪🤪"
Unlike you, people have jobs, and these jobs require equipments that can last until the sun explodes. If one of these equipments stops working and there's no other option than to buy another one because replacing it costs too much, that's called a bad product and it wastes the company's time and money.
These days you don’t have to push cars to start instead the display suddenly says MOTOR FAILURE and stops driving in the middle of the road and then when you send it to get fixed the mechanics can’t find anything wrong with it because it’s a tiny near impossible to find bug in the computer system’s programming
Too much junk is in the same circuit system and confuses the barebone chips inside the cars
My parents went through a vacuum every two or three years. The only vacuums that held up back then would cost the equivalent to 5-10 of the disposable ones.
Problem is nobody wants to spend bigger money one time. They're happy spending less money a dozen or more times over.
You can still buy solid metal vacuums that weigh as much as you did as a child, that have lifetime warranties and replacement parts are going to be available for decades. But nobody wants to buy them, so those companies have been dwindling.
Heck, my $9000 projector from 2009 is still blasting an extremely bright 110" 1080p image after all this time, and that's because I didn't buy a crap product. It's not the highest resolution out there anymore, but it didn't fail on me. I would have spent about $800-1200 every few years if I bought a crap best buy grade projector.
Now, I can only buy a new one from the same company if I ordered it through a Japanese broker, because they left the US market after a hundred cheap products at a fifth of the price overloaded our market, yet people complain while buying the junk repeatedly.
We're driving ourselves into end-game capitalist hell on our own, all while whining about how we aren't able to buy cheaper, better products from companies that want to give us the bare minimum of what we think we want, for the highest profit margins.
Subscription fees on top of retail price, data collection and selling, unrepairable, yeah sooooo much better
Things are supposed to get better, sometime it would get worse because of world event, thats how it should be and thats how it was untill a while ago, now things are good but getting worse because some guy isn't getting paid enough to buy his 4th yacht
Cars got better, then worse, then better and now worse again
@@Emppu_T.worse how? Not arguing, genuinely curious. I got a new car like a year ago and pretty happy about it, but all in all it’s still just a car, like my previous one was from 20 years ago
Yes we have innovation. The problem remains thou, products are built to die. Take cell phones for example. Designed so you almost have to buy a new one every 3-4 years. I still have a nice vacuum from the 60s that works perfectly.
My parents vacuum lasting over 25 years (electrolux btw) still works great, whereas my wife burns out a Hoover every couple of years.
Both of their points are correct except for the second persons idea that they are mutually exclusive and can't both be correct
I think there are many aspects of this problem and depending on your pov it can seem better or worse or somewhere in-between.
Something i have been trying to explain to people is how cheap video games are today, accounting for inflation videogames really did used to be equivalent to 120$ per game and they were generally much much shorter so the per hour of entertainment cost was way way higher. But does that relative cheapness of video games contribjte to the unfinished dlc cash shop nature of modern gaming? Maybe, but could you imagine the modern consumer today willing to lay 120$ for a video game? Even if it was fully finished and had no pay for extra options? I dont think that would fly.
So just for video gamss its skrt of a little better one way a little worse another way.
Nope some stuff still is better and some stuff is crap. There's just much more crap these days and getting quality costs a pretty penny or is hard to get.
No. All of these wonderful advances in technology have made us lazy, complacent, sick, and isolated. I would happily exchange our current tech for a greater appreciation of life.
Seriously? The entire video is a false equivalence. Just because technology has progressed, does NOT mean that consumer products and/or goods have improved, or even that products haven't been intentionally made "worse", cheaper, less reliable, more prone to breakage and more difficult to repair, intentionally. Sure, you can DVR your favorite show, but your "smart" TV is literally spying on you and selling your private data, viewing habits, and in some cases even your conversations, etc. Try listening to music on your subscription plan without a network connection, or try accessing those digital movies if you lose your account, or better yet if the service you bought them on goes down, or shutters permanently. Your old purely mechanical car could get started with a bit of electrical tape and a clutch pop, while your new "electric" car can be remotely disabled with the push of a button, or programmed to take you somewhere that you don't want to go. The list goes on. your argument is cosmetic at best, poorly thought out, weak, and crumbles with even a surface level examination of your points. Did you take even 10 minutes to think about this? Are you even serious with this video?
How how much is the government paying you