Edison hides the forever battery
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No one in c/Conspiracies should be even looking at Wikipedia..... And yeah, who wants a battery every damn 40 years!!!! Much funner to buy every two or three. Thank you for showing my post was against consumerism!! Will try to support more in the future.
Yet you use it
Dude they have a light bulb that been on for over 120 years...
In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable.[1] Once regarded as a conspiracy theory, the rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle").[2] It is the deliberate shortening of the lifespan of a product to force people to purchase functional replacements.[3]