#plannedobsolescence
East Germany during the cold war invented a "chemically hardened" glass. After the USSR collapsed and East Germany reunified with West Germany, the company, "Superfest Gläser", was closed. It turned out in the "capitalist" economy of the West, nobody wanted beer glasses that never break -- you make more money by selling glasses that do break.
There's a lesson there revenant to the future: understanding when the market lacks incentives for producing durable products, or actively favors its reverse, "planned obsolescence".
Apparently the East German Superfest Gläser chemically hardened glass was chemically different from Pyrex, the closest similar product we have in our economy. According to the article, the East German Superfest Gläser glass used a special potassium chloride solution that fused with the glass surface, filling in in micro ruptures within the glass structure, making the glass less prone to breaking. Pyrex, in contrast, is "borosilicate" glass, so called because it's made by combining regular glass with boric oxide. Pyrex's claim to fame isn't actually its hardness, it's its "low-thermal-expansion", making it ideal for measuring things with measurement lines that don't move around when the container is heated.
The East German glass was called "Ceverit".
"'Ce' stood for Chemisch (Chemically), 'ver' for verfestigt (hardened) and the 'it' stood for the silica component."
quick,
destroy more,
make shoddier,
replace sooner,
externalities, externalities, externalities,
rebrand the devil angelic,
keep telling the slaves they're free,
destroy the competition,
suppress the innovations that obsolete the rents.
look at all that churn.
look at all that wealth transfer.
pay no attention to the orders magnitude more wealth destroyed.
keep calling wealth extraction maximisation "profit".
keep calling poverty a virtue to the impoverished.
keep saying the churn is progress and riches.
trot out worshippers of the Gross Domestic Product.
dont you just love capitalism?
maybe capitalist barons care.
maybe this psycho is best.
believe harder. the lies are true.
buy more.
stay dependent,
on your abuser,
because they took everything.
dont you just love capitalism?
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#youwillownnothingandbehappy #subscriptionism #rentierism
#worseformore #thecorporation #protectionracket
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#1984 #bravenewworld #blackmirror
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#hardware I have from the 90s seems more likely -- yes, higher probability -- of working today in 2022 than anything produced after 2000. #plannedObsolescence #sweatshop #LateStageCapitalism
It may be worthwhile reminding people that Free software makes the world a better place ecologically, too • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/01/03/good-consumer/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW f #plannedobsolescence | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/03/good-consumer/
We probably need to improve our messaging along the lines of energy consumption and rejection of #plannedobsolescence in advocacy of free-as-in-freedom software • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/01/03/green-freesw-not-greenwashing/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/03/green-freesw-not-greenwashing/
"Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!!" The "smart" phones just participate in #PlannedObsolescence and soon more #DRM https://dwaves.de/2021/12/09/smart-phones-without-headphone-3-5mm-jack-why-this-sucks-and-wireless-headphones-with-tiny-batteries-make-no-sense-in-general-apples-lack-of-innovation-the-microsoft-recycling-catastrophe/
Massive source of #pollution and #PlannedObsolescence is going full #greenwashing mode. https://news.samsung.com/us/celebrating-america-recycles-day-2021/ #Samsung
Decade after Jobs' death, has #Apple traded magic for profit? ⚓ https://news.yahoo.com/decade-jobs-death-apple-traded-013632107.html what magic? The #sweatshops in #china with #plannedobsolescence that causes pollution? Air pollution alone kills more thanm #covid19 kills.
● NEWS ● #MichaelWest #ProprietarySoftware ☞ #PlannedObsolescence – how #BigTech manipulates consumers to spend again and again https://www.michaelwest.com.au/planned-obsolescence-how-big-tech-manipulates-consumers-to-spend-again-and-again/ "big tech" is Microsoft propaganda: http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
#Microsoft has weaponised the #Linux brand to dub a toxic company like itself (helping notoriously polluting companies and generating lots of waste, both directly and through #plannedobsolescence , inefficient software, #DRM , etc.) as “green” http://techrights.org/2021/09/24/spamnil-zdnet-lf-greenwashing-microsoft/
