Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?

devolution@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  *doesn’t make enough money.

  Things that mostly work with occasional minor problems that are easily diagnosed and fixed are still profitable… they just don’t maximise profitability.

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  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the problem. Capitalism isn’t happy with making a decent profit. It needs to maximize the profit by cutting everything else.

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• X@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  An answer so simple that you’d think it’d be more obvious, but there it is.

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• yessikg@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yep, good old planned obsolence

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