France is starting to reform the engineering and corporate world...
I hope this idea makes it into legislation around the world! Don't forget to extend it to make illegal the planned obsolescence of software, firmware and hardware in digital components.
What a great idea! I'd suggest that abolishing the much beloved "public - private partnership" that has led to so many government agencie$ being captured would be a great addition to reformed and enlightened public policy as well.
The planned obsolescence idea poisoned several generations of design engineers and product planners. Society has paid the price - so much time, money, materials and labor have been wasted since this terrible idea was trumpeted by GM and the various Alfie inspired B-Schools. A large part of the world's landfills can be attributed to this mans big idea, supported by institutions like MIT. Tons of waste, thanks Alfie and all of the rest who saw profit at the cost of squandering societies treasures. As a former test engineer in the automotive industry and a design engineer in aerospace - I can attest to the fact that the design philosophy at GM was suffocating. I remember the day I resigned from GM... I took off my tie in the parking lot and double knotted it around the top of the antenna on my door-less Jeep CJ-7 and drove up 12 Mile never to return to the "Tech Center." It was a streamer of freedom! LOL, finally perhaps we are turning the corner. Thank you France.
By the way, often times the difference between infinite life and high cycle fatigue is a few cents of material. Maybe just one more design iteration... disgusting.
This is an incredible example of a bad idea gone wild as the profit incentives blurred everybody's sensibilities. It happens in governments too. We all know a bad idea when we see it. Hopefully the energy crunch can help us find our voices to speak up when we see the bad ideas coming. Not all manufacturers succumbed to this money making ploy. Several high quality auto manufacturers would not "get with the times" and eshewed the idea of planned obsolescence as dishonest and wasteful. They went out of business being truthful to their moral convictions. Sadly. Public conscientiousness is too often easily manipulated and spun - thanks to a legion of folks like Bernays. That is our fault. Stay vigilant my friends. Our future depends on it.
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