The Light Bulb Conspiracy uncovers how planned obsolescence has shaped our lives and economy since the 1920's, when manufacturers deliberately started shortening the life of consumer products to increase demand. The film also profiles a new generation of consumers, designers and business people who have started challenging planned obsolescence as an unsustainable economic driver.
The documentary begins by visiting the longest running light bulb in the world, which has burned continuously for over 110 years in Livermore, California. Initially, light bulbs were built to last. But the film finds historical evidence revealing how a cartel in the 1920's decided to produce bulbs limited to a maximum life of 1000 hours, making the humble light bulb one of the first examples of planned obsolescence and a model for increasing profits on other products.
Shot over three years in Europe, the U.S. and Ghana, The Light Bulb Conspiracy investigates the evolution and impact of planned obsolescence through interviews with historians, economists, designers and manufacturers, along with archival footage and internal company documents. The film profiles several well-known historical advocates -- Bernard London, who famously proposed ending the Great Depression by mandating planned obsolescence, and Brook Stevens, whose post-war ideas became the gospel of the 1950's and helped shape the throwaway consumer society of today.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy also looks at modern examples of planned obsolescence, including computer printers and the controversy over the inability to replace iPod batteries. Environmental consequences are seen most dramatically in the massive amounts of electronic waste that end up in uncontrolled dump sites in Third World countries such as Ghana. The film concludes with examples of consumers and businesses moving towards more sustainable practices and products, including Warner Philips, great grandson of the founder of Philips Electronics, who is producing an LED bulb designed to last 25 years.
This is one of those openly discussed, widely known conspiracy theories. Engineers brag about their ability to design things that will fail at specific dates. This is why modern roads suck and fail quickly. This is why LED light bulbs, which should last a really long time, burn out quicker than incandescent light bulbs. This is why the adage "they don't build them like they used to" is true.
Our ancestors were driven by love of their people, and through that love, built things that were beautiful, strong, and meant to last, things that were cherished, increased the beauty of the community and nation, and could be handed down to subsequent generations. Now? It's all cheap garbage and literal poison that is designed to be thrown away as quickly as possible, and rebought, to enrich CEOs and make us destitute. It's a natural consequence of capitalism, which prioritizes the pursuit of money above all else, seeking cheaper and cheaper ingredients, components, and labor, while selling for the same amount, or more. It's a never ending death spiral of greed and mammonism, and is antithetical to Christianity.
Jesus commanded us to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbors (people) as ourselves. The foundations of capitalism is a contradiction of both commandments. It's just that many people have been fooled with the false choice dichotomy of economics of the last century, of capitalism vs communism, believing that basic market dynamics of free trade, ownership of goods, competition and merit, specialization of labor, and the like are somehow intrinsically associated with capitalism, and didn't exist for thousands of years before that usurious economic system was implemented. Corruption, lobbying, government subsidies, usury, bankers, obsolescence, inflation, outsourcing, globalism, open borders, mass immigration, cheap foreign labor, pushing women into the workforce, reduction of children per couple, these are all natural consequences of capitalism. It's just that many right wingers pray to idols, like mammon, will abandon their people so long as the stock market and GDP go up, and refuse to connect some of the worst aspects of modern society to their side of the false choice dichotomy of econonics, to "own the commies".
It's a natural consequence of capitalism, which prioritizes the pursuit of money above all else, seeking cheaper and cheaper ingredients, components, and labor, while selling for the same amount, or more.
Oh, is that what capitalism is? I suppose that's why Christians prefer communism...
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The Light Bulb Conspiracy uncovers how planned obsolescence has shaped our lives and economy since the 1920's, when manufacturers deliberately started shortening the life of consumer products to increase demand. The film also profiles a new generation of consumers, designers and business people who have started challenging planned obsolescence as an unsustainable economic driver.
The documentary begins by visiting the longest running light bulb in the world, which has burned continuously for over 110 years in Livermore, California. Initially, light bulbs were built to last. But the film finds historical evidence revealing how a cartel in the 1920's decided to produce bulbs limited to a maximum life of 1000 hours, making the humble light bulb one of the first examples of planned obsolescence and a model for increasing profits on other products.
Shot over three years in Europe, the U.S. and Ghana, The Light Bulb Conspiracy investigates the evolution and impact of planned obsolescence through interviews with historians, economists, designers and manufacturers, along with archival footage and internal company documents. The film profiles several well-known historical advocates -- Bernard London, who famously proposed ending the Great Depression by mandating planned obsolescence, and Brook Stevens, whose post-war ideas became the gospel of the 1950's and helped shape the throwaway consumer society of today.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy also looks at modern examples of planned obsolescence, including computer printers and the controversy over the inability to replace iPod batteries. Environmental consequences are seen most dramatically in the massive amounts of electronic waste that end up in uncontrolled dump sites in Third World countries such as Ghana. The film concludes with examples of consumers and businesses moving towards more sustainable practices and products, including Warner Philips, great grandson of the founder of Philips Electronics, who is producing an LED bulb designed to last 25 years.
This is one of those openly discussed, widely known conspiracy theories. Engineers brag about their ability to design things that will fail at specific dates. This is why modern roads suck and fail quickly. This is why LED light bulbs, which should last a really long time, burn out quicker than incandescent light bulbs. This is why the adage "they don't build them like they used to" is true.
Our ancestors were driven by love of their people, and through that love, built things that were beautiful, strong, and meant to last, things that were cherished, increased the beauty of the community and nation, and could be handed down to subsequent generations. Now? It's all cheap garbage and literal poison that is designed to be thrown away as quickly as possible, and rebought, to enrich CEOs and make us destitute. It's a natural consequence of capitalism, which prioritizes the pursuit of money above all else, seeking cheaper and cheaper ingredients, components, and labor, while selling for the same amount, or more. It's a never ending death spiral of greed and mammonism, and is antithetical to Christianity.
Jesus commanded us to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbors (people) as ourselves. The foundations of capitalism is a contradiction of both commandments. It's just that many people have been fooled with the false choice dichotomy of economics of the last century, of capitalism vs communism, believing that basic market dynamics of free trade, ownership of goods, competition and merit, specialization of labor, and the like are somehow intrinsically associated with capitalism, and didn't exist for thousands of years before that usurious economic system was implemented. Corruption, lobbying, government subsidies, usury, bankers, obsolescence, inflation, outsourcing, globalism, open borders, mass immigration, cheap foreign labor, pushing women into the workforce, reduction of children per couple, these are all natural consequences of capitalism. It's just that many right wingers pray to idols, like mammon, will abandon their people so long as the stock market and GDP go up, and refuse to connect some of the worst aspects of modern society to their side of the false choice dichotomy of econonics, to "own the commies".
Oh, is that what capitalism is? I suppose that's why Christians prefer communism...
You should watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bjys8wo4Bo
And, this video contains only some of the reasoning behind why capitalism is antithetical to Christianity.