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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever heard an old timer gripe that things aren’t built like they used to be, that old timer was right! In this classic episode, learn about the nefarious, possibly mythical, mechanism that’s responsible for the cruddy products and waste our consumer society is based on.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.0

Hey everyone, it's Josh and for this week's Select, I picked our episode on planned

0:35.8

ob-selects.

0:37.5

It's the one where Chuck and I turn into old fogies and start griping about how things

0:41.2

today aren't as good as they used to be.

0:43.5

But it turns out that we're right.

0:45.8

It's one of the more eye-opening and maddening episodes and hopefully it'll shine a bit

0:50.2

of light on one of the more wasteful aspects of our global mechanism.

0:55.1

I just made that turn up.

0:57.6

So sit back and check it out.

1:02.6

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:09.0

Hey and welcome to The Podcasts.

1:13.6

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and there's Jerry over there.

1:18.4

So this is Stuff You Should Know, Built to Break Edition.

1:23.9

Okay.

1:24.9

I didn't, I was not paying attention when you said which one we were doing and I thought,

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