When profit became a goal of human activity, things turn into complete shit quickly.
All that planned obsolence, processed food, single-use things, finacial services and all that stuff is a product of profit-driven economy and nothing else.
And it is only beginning. It's not hard to imagine how that will develop, and picture is disgusting.
Also, profit-driven economy is a power source for aristocracy/elites and inevitably lead to globalism.
In the not so distant past some enterprises/corporations still valued such thing as reputation, and kind of tried to not make shitty things for the sake of profit. However, with development of advertising into brainwashing, even those who careв about reputation completely turned to profits, and you will not find anyone who try to make nice, reliable, long-lasting things for customers.
It is not a technical problem to make a car that will last forever with rare cheap service today. It will not even be expensive. It will generate an excellent reputation, but not much profits. So, it is impossible today.
I don't see any clear solution to that shit, but profit-driven economy have to be exterminated to prevent disaster in the future.
Funny, but that globalists dream of social credit system could be kind of partial solution, if applied to businesses instead of people, by people. Things reliability, cost of ownership, lifetime and other parameters could be used to score corporations. Corporations with low score could be forced to pay compensation to customers, to effectively cut their profits and so force them to choose other goal, like reputation or whatever else.
All advertising, except neutral and real product parameters should be banned forever. Any attempt to use any subconscious methods in advertising shoud be punished as fraud, criminally with jailtime. Say, car manufacturers shouldn't show a car running through pleasant landscape with something like "this car wil make you look cool" voice in background. There should be mpg, hp, trunk volume, cost of year ownership in terms of service costs and spare parts and other really useful information.
Basically, modern advertising is a pure brainwashing today, thats side-effect of profit-driven economy. If you can brainwash people to buy shit, then there is no any need to make decent things at all.
Really this is a huge conspiracy, that combines nearly all shit we have in our clown world, from fiat money everybody run after as stupid sheep to the globalism and jews. And all that combines into one thing - profit-driven economy.
If we want to do something about any of conspiracies we talk about, then we have to start with profit-driven economy.
What OP seeks could be far easier done by laws removing the installment plan, or capping usurious credit card interest at 10%, which will result in lower credit limits. Maybe making bankruptcy easier.
That means that the average person isn't going to buy shit they can't afford because they get suckered into it.
Then this average persons will look for cheapest possible shit making things worse and profiting those who are ready to sell complete garbage - corporations.
This all shit with profit-driven coproeconomy is looped round and round on itself. Owner wants profit, cutting salaries and bying shittiest components, so workforce have no money to buy normal stuff, so they constantly buy shit, eventually loosing more money than they would have been spent on normal stuff, Those who make normal stuff can't sell it, so they also join corporation workforce in search for cheap shit, when there is no any normal things on the market, corporations rise their prices for even worse shit and so on...
If this cycle as you describe were inevitable, then there would be no quality items in production anywhere, which is not the case.
It is gradual process. There are much less and much harder to find things that have good quality.