#jbmackinnon — Public Fediverse posts

"In a 2010 book that he edited, 'Longer Lasting Products', [Tim] Cooper suggests possible ways to accomplish this: Minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability. A decrease in taxes on labor and an increase on energy and raw materials, to help make it cheaper to repair or recondition things and more expensive to make new ones. Sales-tax rates based on product lifetimes. Longer consumer guarantees and warranties."

#JBMacKinnon, 2016

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-l-e-d-quandary-why-theres-no-such-thing-as-built-to-last

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#PolicyNZ

"In its day, however, the shift to planned obsolescence was in keeping with the views of a growing body of economists and businesspeople who felt that, unless you dealt in coffins, it was bad business and unsound economics to sell a person any product only once."

#JBMacKinnon, 2016

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-l-e-d-quandary-why-theres-no-such-thing-as-built-to-last

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#PlannedObsolescence

The Tyee: 'Hope Is Complicated but Necessary' (in Culture) https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/05/11/Rebecca-Solnit-Essay/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #NotTooLate:ChangingtheClimateStoryfromDespairtoPossibility #JoelleGergisAClimateScientist'sTakeonHope #Climate-justicewriterMary Annaïse Heglar #BritishjournalistGeorgeMonbiot #AmericanwriterJamesBaldwin #RenatoRedentorConstantino #Denmarkclimateconference #2015ParisAgreement #EssayistYotamMarom #climateanxiety #RebeccaSolnit #JBMacKinnon