Planned Obsolescence: The Right to a Product | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0	Happy birthday to you.
0:05.0	Here, my old. Happy birthday to you. Happy Birthday. To be.
0:14.0	If you're going to be.
0:15.0	If you're wondering why you've just heard several dozen people seeing the words happy birthday dear
0:23.4	light bulb it's to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Centennial Light in
0:27.2	Livermore, California Fire Station. And yes, this is an actual thing that happens
0:32.2	and I find it adorable.
0:34.4	But if you're wondering just how the hell the light bulb is still burning, you're not alone.
0:39.4	As it turns out, the phrase, they just don't make things like they used to isn't just something your
0:43.9	grandparents would say and planned obsolescence can be a genuine problem.
0:48.9	It all started with our 100 plus year old friend here. The light bulb.
0:54.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the corporate casket. I'm the
1:03.9	aluminati and today we're going to be talking about planned obsolescence and
1:07.6	the right to repair. These two things go hand in hand. Is equipment planned to fail and why can't we fix it when it does?
1:15.7	So let me start by using an example that many of you can probably relate to.
1:19.7	McDonald's.
1:21.8	If you've ever been to a McDonald's and ordered one of their ice creams, you may have been told that the machine is broken.
1:27.0	Now, sure, machines break, but these ones were always down.
1:30.0	The problem got so bad that you could even track which McDonald's were serving ice cream online.
1:35.0	So why is it so hard to fix a soft serve machine?
1:39.0	Well, enter the right to repair.
1:41.0	These machines are advanced but temperamental. When a machine breaks down,
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