of course they wanna charge you. they’ve been purposefully fucking with incandescent light bulb lifetimes for a hundred years as a means to increase profits.

they can’t do that anymore, so they need another racket to get you to keep coming back and giving them money…

and they found it.

just like every other greedy bastard corporation—subscriptions.

at least they aren’t gimping the led units to some arbitrary lifespan, but you know damn well they’re using the cheapest shortest-lasting sub-components and cheapest manufacturing they can find.