An answer so simple that you’d think it’d be more obvious, but there it is.
Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?
devolution@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shit just working doesn’t make money.
X@piefed.world 1 month ago
yessikg@fedia.io 1 month ago
Yep, good old planned obsolence
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That’s the problem. Capitalism isn’t happy with making a decent profit. It needs to maximize the profit by cutting everything else.