This is why we can't have nice things

Any more info on this? So you remember the textbook or course code? I'd love to do some more reading on this

@@ToroMoto I would like to read more on this too.

Guess I'm lucky my teachers were vividly against this.

@@ToroMoto @miguelonas
Start with the phrase 'Mean Time to Failure' or MTTF and go from there. IMO, the concept itself isn't nefarious but it can be used that way.

It is unmoral and seed of corrupt. Humans don't deserve anything less than an a asteroid wipe.

Grandpa doesn't have all those years for no reason. The greatest tragedy is that us young people tend to ignore their wisdom.

All us young people turn up our noses at the 'boomers' for their often seemingly backwards ways of thinking, but they have wisdom on things that we're clueless about.

@@AnotherAvaibleName YOU SAID IT

This is true even in most of our lifetimes. Mobile phones used to be virtually indestructible (with normal use). And the screen was made from plastic, which scratched like a MF, but didn't crack.

It's literally killing -two- -three- four birds with one stone for the manufacturers - while charging the same amount of money, using less material/lower rating components costs them less, and at the same time they last a shorter amount of time. This also allows a smaller enclosure, that is more appealing to customers, and that in turn helps further reduce lifespan by making the product heat up inside more, and making it less mechanically durable. Just look at every device with more than 1 transistor in it made in the last decade and a half - the trend is to make them thin and "pretty" and try to shove that into people's brains as "fashion", and use brittle and easily scratched materials, while cheaping out on everything inside.

We had a fridge from the early 50s. It was still working in the early 2000s, when my parents threw it out (it was at the country home). For no reason. It just ticked me off. They have already replaced the one they replaced it with. SMDH

@Sidemen AFTV Clips & More ehh, 3d printing still uses "resources."

Its the same with fashion, cloths used to last much longer, now its more profitable to sell seasonal wear that has to be replaced every 3 months

Completely agree and the exact same applies to capitalism

@Sidemen AFTV Clips & More I didn't know you could 3d print all the elements in electronics like gold colbalt and phosphorous lmao.

True and how often do we can upgrade our electronics? So much, e-waste is created..

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I expected you here

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I knew you’d like this

my house was built in the 60’s. the same oven has been running, and even the broiler still works

@@james__anna_burns4885 My family's country home has a wood / propane Moffat stove from the 40s, still in working order.

I instantly thought of that lightbulb that you took when mom moved, haha!

Welcome to capitalism!

All for the love of money

Imagin the trillions of dollars lanned obsolescence has caused our planet

ah but you can make money moving the garbage around, so it's a trade off. that's why capitalism is so beloved and will def not lead to the death of the planet in one way or another

@@dextrodemon just moving it around... not getting rid of it or recycling it. recycling isnt profitable so thats why they dont actually do it. its a scam, only a few materials or plastics can be recycled to make profit, otherwise it doesnt happen.

I aways thought it was getting one to break down the day after your warranty expires is the trick. 😁

An example of why I will never buy a GM product. Hondas and Toyotas are more durable.

@@robertromero8692 Nissan and Volvo are my preferences

Ohh my gosh. That explains alot

But as Toyota has shown us,a lasting car,equals more sales.

Most LED bulbs are designed to cook themselves pretty quickly

I was going to say the same thing. We're sold on them lasting for 25+ years....but they realistically only last 1/5th of that.

I'm looking forward to a class action lawsuit regarding all the LED lights that claim they last like a decade. I'll probably be awarded at least a few dollars.

​@@yeager6882 Definitely. In one year Sue goes to buy 20 apples for $5, in another year it could be Joe, buying 25 apples for $10. It's hard to keep up.

@@simarpreetsinghmamik These are straight-up factual statements.. it's best to use second-hand books.

@@elmo4672 that's the point - You can't, because schools often require You to have a latest edition.

Also the newest editions have less pirated copies, so it's less likely for the answer key to be available for students to use as reference

In my country for primary and secondary schools there's a program to borrow the books from the students last year. The students last year give their books to the school and the newer students have these books handed to them. If you lose or destroy your book you do have to pay to replace them.

wow

Nobody else like the comment it’s at exactly 108 likes

@@netshaek I was going to do it until i read ur comment hahahahah

Someone already ruined it so +1 like for every extra year?

That happened

My grandfather always told me, you could wake up dead tomorrow. So live every day and take nothing for granted

more like a pair of Havel's Gauntlets

​@@v0ldy54with a bit of STONE cold logic

He also said he thinks the incentive was to make profit, other stuff was just happy accidents.

​@@cancan-wq9unmeh, everything was a trade-off between efficiency, lifespan and price and lifespan is inversely proportional to efficiency if you keep your price constant, to increase both the price would have become too prohibitive to make the product viable as a mass consumer good.
Everything have trade-offs in real life engineering, you can't have your cake and eat it at the same time.

@@carlosdgutierrez6570 Why not 1500 hours, then? You wouldn't lose brightness just as much, and they still get what they want. but no, 1000 hours was more profitable. And if apple can fool people to buy phones that last 2 years as "perfect" phones in a market there are far more better phones present, they could easily convince people dimmer lights are better with little effort. But they didnt. Because that is not how capitalism works.

We need a hero

@@dienosorpo we had one. He was named Nikola Tesla. He intended to give everyone free and wireless electricity forever. He had the technology, the science behind it but not the money. He was starved to death and chased down by bankers and other scientists with more capitalist intentions (Thomas Edison) aaaand he died mysteriously in a hotel room and all of his discoveries were “stolen” and well-kept under rocks to this day

@@juanitome1327 he tried helping humanity while everyone helped themselves

>Cover yourself in oil

@@juanitome1327 it is actually proven that wireless transfer of electricity is incredibly inefficient and it is very difficult to make something completely free.

Because we cant find or change an economic solution to this as a species

Which company?

how long have you had your car? I am driving a 25 y.o. car with 200k miles on it. Impossible 40 years ago (without a complete rebuild at least once)

@@DavidMishchenko It was a company named St. George, here in Australia, which is now defunct.
You will see a bank and rugby league team bearing the same name, but they're completely unrelated.

@@gizzyguzzi My original comment relates to an old oven that lasted up to Jan 2020. However, my car is 7 years' old to date so too early to tell how long it'll last.

I wish all engineering courses required students to train as service technicians for some type of machine or industry. People who think AI will do our jobs for us are short-sighted and downright lazy. Engineers who are okay with making products that are poorly designed should be ashamed of themselves. I plan to learn some mechanic-ing this year, as an engineering student I hope I will one day meet other engineers who give a damn and maybe follow my childhood dream of making cool things...
I will say this though: for some classic sports cars, Nissan and Mazda seem to be making new OEM components for owners to keep their cars running. I hope that becomes a thing as it's getting harder to find critical components for some of these cars.

@@MidnightGreen4649 I couldn't agree with you more. I can't say how many times I've seen a well designed part install or perform poorly. Some things seem like a good idea but in practicality it doesn't work as well.
While technology has proved beneficial in many ways over the years it doesn't or will not replace genuine intuition or a deeper understanding of something.
Computers only see inputs and outputs at its most simplest form.
Having more people with a mindset like yours will make the automotive industry better if the corporate aspect rolls with it. Many things come into mind when making a part and mass cost is one of them.

@@-Just_Justin- I think your reply has inspired me to talk to the engineering faculty at my college so that there can be more education and discussion about designing with an emphasis on the right to repair and from the perspective of not just the end user but also understanding technicians.
We had several lectures by various engineering professors in my introductory courses. I don't see why we shouldn't also learn from mechanics, machinists, and repairmen. Having the students complete training as technicians might be a bit much, but I think it's possible to make it work. The goal, after all, is to shift the philosophy of engineering and product design to what it once was.

@@MidnightGreen4649 that would be a monumental step into a more productive direction. If the technician doing the repair can understand the same concept as the engineers and vice versa, operations would become more uniform in a sense. Most of these things are now so divided that one department doesn't talk to another but one relies on another. Having a more direct form of communication during the development phase could ultimately save time and money.

@@-Just_Justin- Indeed. as cheesy as it sounds, I just have a genuine love for the art.

Yess, in the dinner of Trimalchio ( Trimalchione)

Name checks out

I heard that it was with emperor tiberius.

No idea if this is true but it sounds horrible.
Moreso than his personm from the little i know about Caesar the one thing that always amazed me was always his forces, and especially the engineering feats of his forces. Like, people did this 2000 years ago, wtf?
But considering your reply I guess he's the original "The Man", to be hated and scorned.

interesting story. (small correction it seems it was Tiberius Caesar.) most claims are that it is fictitious. The Satyricon is fiction but who knows, once you've had everyone killed.....

but but, infinite growth! :)

It’s just a conspiracy, it’s impossible to hold cartels that court control so much today, the strategy does exist, apple has done it,

@@-hiro-5995 Steve Jobs did it. Apple has sold its soul since then.

A waste of time, ambition, and effort. But I wonder if it's a character of a downturn of civilizational spirit, when it occurs writ large.

yeah , i had to replace the 20yo microwave only bcs we got new power breakers that couldn't handle the peak load when turning on the MW. It didn't have a soft start...

Is it still under warranty? Haw haw.

My husband's friend bought my grandma's fridge from the 50s after she died. It just needed new seals around the door.

I think that newer fridges don't last as long not purely out of planned obsolence. Companies are forced by law to make the devices more and more efficient and this comes at a cost.

Probably she just need to replace the thermostat or something. I bet the compressor motor is still good.

Refurb the compressor or whatever is broken, PLEASE do not let her throw out the old fridge. It may just be a fridge, but it's a relic, too. A relic of a better time for the reliability of household appliances.

I'm sure it is. In your occupation you can identify and fix flaws in many designs that lead to reduced lifespan. It's really too bad most companies are no longer interested in selling a product designed with longevity in mind. But, I wonder how much of this is due to so many consumers basing their purchasing decisions mainly on cost? Our grandparent's generations were much different. They were willing to pay much higher prices for products that not only functioned better, but lasted longer.

@@sparkeyjones6261 The disposable income has gone down, it's not a mindset. It's not having the money to make big purchases.

@@sparkeyjones6261 that is also true. New and shiny for most consumers is more important than functional and long lasting. Even if the design is great. Look at the old Mercedes Benz from before the 90's. Great machines that with proper maintenance will outlast you. Can't say the same for newer cars. People used to keep they cars, washing machines, refrigerators for decades.
And it's worse than turning your back on identifying flaws, it's actually designing something and then figuring out how to make it go bad. It's basically destroying your design.

People are suckers. They'll eat up marketing and use it as brand loyalty instead of just relying on data and companies know this.

I'm also an industrial designer and I honestly haven't come across any projects that I would consider to have planned obsolescence. All components, especially small components, have a cycle life, nothing lasts forever. You can make things last longer but it usually comes at some other cost like money or size or performance, etc.; and at a certain point, the product no longer meets it's requirements and lasts far longer than it would become technologically obsolete. Generally speaking my clients would prefer the last impression of their product NOT to be it crapping out.

Sorry it’s wear out

A dealership doing the right thing? Do you live in bizarro world?

Nice try , and sorry about your repair cost , cars are a bitch

That’s awesome!

That’s quite interesting. When I was a kid, in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s I remember that indeed we could take burnt out light bulbs back to “Edison” for free replacement, too. In my case, “Edison” meant the Detroit Edison Company… which was the electricity utility company. However, I was told a different reason… that since Edison was selling the electricity to you, giving out free light bulbs encouraged people to install more lights, I.e. more Kilowatts used per customer. My grandfather was an engineer at Detroit Edison, but unfortunately I don’t know if that rationale came from him or if it was just something my parents surmised.. but it definitely was true, I remember where the local Edison office was in our town, and I remember taking bulbs there for free replacements.

In Michigan Detroit Edison had a policy where you could save your burnt out lightbulbs and return them for free replacement. At one point to due to legal rangling they had to move the place where you returned them out of state to Toledo Ohio.
It was in the interest of the Utilities that the light bulbs lasted as long as possible and they required the bulb manufacturers, GE, Westinghouse, Sylvania and Phillip's to meet higher standards and supply them with bulbs that lasted longer.
Then a party store owner sued Detroit Edison to stop this practice alleging that it was effecting his lightbulb sales. There was an out roar towards this party store owner, who later admitted a lawyer put him up to suing!
Btw I still have many of these replacement bulbs. They last 5 to 10 years as compared to 10 to 24 months!

@@tedcole9936 Good story.

Wow! Thats awesome

This joke is too resilient and is cutting into joke manufacturers' profits. They should make jokes with more dated references and slang that make them age worse.

@@Facistznik brilliant. Now comedians will make billions.

you just wanted to say you were born in 1935

My grandmother has a GE frige that still works fine, that's over 50 years old.

Can we stop pretending VPN services are "more secure"?
Rare are the websites that are not encrypted with TLS certificates.
Encrypting it again is not meaningfully more secure.
VPN hides your IP and makes you harder to track. That great to circunvent geo locked content and reduce geo targeted content, but has little to do with your security.
If anything if makes it harder for your online banking plateform from recognizing your regular connexion pattern, which I would argue makes your ban account LESS secure to use if you connect to it using a VPN.

And that reason is selective memory bias. People simply tend to remember good things.

@@johnysmrz there can be many reasons/causes for a single event, you're both right

@@johnysmrz that's why we write and record history, because our minds will forget most bad things

why should they? they want more money and people want more jobs

@ᴄᴏᴠᴏɪᴅ • Actually, it is related to the topic, we tend to remember the good things from our past but forget about the bad ones (being the good things in this case, more durable products)

Depends how good our ability to recycle is; it's not like the resources are deleted from existence
I imagine some generations from now, there'll be well established practices collecting those resources out of the oceans
Broadly speaking though, I do agree. Since deliberate obsolescence expedites resource drain faster than necessary, making a large portion of the resource inaccessible without new recycling or refurbishing practices

@@TheGaboom Ditto. There are more and more companies figuring out how to profit from recycling traditionally "unrecyclable" objects. The future is in efficient recycling, high quality products, powerfully efficient clean energy sources like fusion, and alternate materials such as in asteroids, to name a few.

On the other hand, you completely gloss over the bigest problem with predictions of resource scarcity: historically resources overwhelmingly become less scarce and less expensive rather than more scarce -as use increases. Salt, food, coal, aluminum, and books are reasonably substantial examples. It's been a very long time since we've had a salt shortage.
Unless you think we've hit peak-human-ingenuity already, I expect that trend will continue rather than reverse.

@@jengleheimerschmitt7941 I agree - human ingenuity is supreme really and even facing such hurdles as overpopulation, energy needs, food shortages, rare metal shortages, etc, I believe we are already working on solutions and will overcome.

yes and people can talk about recycling all day but most of it will go into a landfill . its completely wasteful

Europe addresses this by forcing the companies to take back end-of-life products and recycle them. Now, there is an incentive to not get them back thereby providing a reason to extend their life. It is always about changing motivations and incentives.

Why are we set up so the survival of our species is reliant on companies being responsible and moral?
A responsible and moral company is a company either out of business or bought by a bigger one and shut down.

No, they don’t have a responsibility to “save the planet!” And we don’t have a right to most goods and services. Just be grateful and quit whining.

@@juniorvonclaire3576 Why are you defending people literally selling you bad products? How are you that brainwashed? Do you not know how to stand up for what’s right?

totally agree consumerism and obsolete design are the worse thing that has happened to society and environment.

Neither did I, although I knew it ;-) Economy is about psychology, not technology.

Just another way to say that broken windows are good for the economy. That's Paul krugman levels of stupid.

They’re great for the economy. They’re bad for profits

I would put it differently: "The western capitalist post industrial revolution paradigm is bad for good products" And no, I am not sugesting what ever would be better than that. I wish I knew.

That's why the system must change

thas just how boomers do it back in the day

@@cringe5393 Most items built in the boomer generation were built to last. Consumers of that era bought items they thought would last a lifetime, & almost always repaired them rather than replace them. Large scale consumerism really began in the 80s, & rapidly accelerated into the modern era. You could hardly get a boomer to buy something they would replace the very next year. However, Gen X, millennials, & Gen Z all look forward to replacing still new items with even newer versions. Owning the latest & greatest thing became the new goal, rather than actual usefulness. Even the thought that an item would be "collectible" didn't begin until the late 80s. It's why stuff from the 80s onward isn't worth hardly anything, while items from the 40s had value as antiques during the 80s. People back then didn't "collect" things, they actually used them.

@@k-ozdragon Did you not watch the video?

@@This_is_my_spout I did. So lightbulbs were made to be less effective, which ended in the 30s. When did ipod & most consumer goods begin to widely make their stuff so it couldn't be repaired? Did people in the era from 1900-1985 buy things just because they were collectible?

@@tobytoxd People didn't sell their cars just to buy a new model because the color changed. Not like consumers today would buy a the same exact phone that they already own because the "newer" one is pink. Automotive paint just gained a competitive edge over the other makers to sell more cars. Henry Ford painted cars black because it was the only paint at the time that didn't change color over time & dried quickly. Car makers literally painted cars with paint made from fish scale pigment. Something the average person couldn't afford. It has zero to do with planned obsolescence.
As far as fashion goes, when has that ever not changed? Clothing always evolved since it was invented. The only difference is more people can afford clothing. Find an era in history where those who could afford clothing weren't looking for something new & unique to wear. Good luck.
Both of these things are market forces involved in every purchase ever made in history by consumers. If GM made a car that would break on purpose, & was constructed so the consumer couldn't repair it, you might have a point. The light bulb is a glaring example of that. However, the practice of replacing things that don't need replacing, buying purely to say that you own the latest version, or designing things with the intention of them breaking, is a far more modern phenomenon.

Yes we can and we have. Every time when I look at some new phone I ask myself if my current one can do 95% of the new one. If it can, then why spend the money? Same with computers or any gadget. I use galaxy s8 and I'm happy with it, It can play music, take pictures, play games, run apps, and even can fit into pocket. Why should I buy a new one?
Same with a computer. Have a macbook from about the same time I bought my s8. Great screen, fast enough for work, editing pictures, playing movies, browsing web. What else can a new laptop do that one from 4 or 5 years ago can't?
There was a time when computers was so slow that every two years it was worth the upgrade, but now you can do basically anything on any computer. Only if you are a professional that needs power for a specific software, like 3d rendering, only then you might get a value from an upgrade.
I like how companies tries to brainwash you that their new product is 10% faster, even though practically it makes no difference. No one should care if you can render your 20 minutes video 2 minutes faster. No one sits and looks and the screen while it's rendering something.
tldr; don't be a brainless sheep and think about what you actually need and not about what you want and you will realize that the nice things are all around you.

Same happened to me haha

@@codehardr1209 i understand that but you get what i was saying

"Blame China! ...yep, that should do it"

@im300kmh but today's light bulbs are pretty resistent.

Exactly what’s happening with cars, homes, machinery. Just because of JoBs

You've just described the entire oil industry

Thats because most people dont want to adapt and change themselves. They will vote against change. Literally happening right now with the transistion to EVs.

@@romansenger2322 In many ways, I feel as though EV's aren't going to really improve anything in terms of how much resources we're using up. I feel like we need to figure out how to live our lives without having to need cars. Japan does this well.

@@stockloc of course they do. Just look up "EV vs ICE what pollutes more" here on youtube to get an idea how bad ICEs are. But I get your point. Mobility will never be good for the environment. Its always about the question how to make it less damaging for the environment.

Exactly, this.

Interestingly, newer products are marketed as "more efficient" also.

I really hope more people are gonna see this trough. I think it's really unhealthy to consume so much. Especially with cloths but also with electronics and all kind of other stuff. I never knew but apparently there are people out there who even buy new cutlery and plates every season to "stay in fashion"

Exactly! If it wasn't for capitalism and planned obsolecence we could live sustainably.

I know. That's the first thing that comes to my mind.

lmao guess whose comment is right below yours

@@fenn_fren I just saw it. Awesome! :D

rob boss

Master oogway- there are no accidents.

If Apple products didn't die, they wouldn't be able to create new Apple products, that's just how -capitalism- fruit works.

Yes

Indeed

Hell yeah

For sure!

Amen to that.

Flying cars are helicopters

Wouldnt it be weird if your flying car would suddenly fall out the sky because it reached 18 months?

@@sannewijn8695 maintenance

@@LawsOnJoystick wooosh

Capitalism.....money over people every single time...

That's actually a tongue-in-cheek saying praising the ability to do a good job *cost effectively* (being responsible with public funds).

I just watched it, I knew something was off and there had to be some kind of energy savings aspect of it, beefing up the inside of the bulb would just take more energy to get it to a certain temperature and im sure they cared about saving energy since i think thats the whole reason they started day light savings like a hundred years ago

I was looking for this comment, watched Tech Connections video on it as well as I thought Alec would say the exact same thing as the veritassium video. Pleasantly surprised.

Well, what is more reasonable: Phoebus wanted to save energy, or Phoebus wanted to make a bit more money. Don't underestimates the droping sales and the preasure to grow & shareholder value. It sound like propaganda.
BTW: we do have another cartel with the toner / printer ink and also the pharma industry. Guess what? It needs to be so expensive, because else we can afford more research. Well, that why you make so much profit? Why don't you reinvest that ... oh, never mind.

​@@CivilianApplicationsthay argument doesnt work here, because those bulb companies were also the power companies. It was in their best interest to push bulbs that lasted forever and took a ton to power, so they could sell that power. The opposite happened for the sake of efficiency. This vid is probably the worst work veritassium ever put out.

Thank you so much for this. When I watched Technology Connections video, I thought about this one. Planned obsolescence is absolutely an issue in countless products today, just Technology Connections says, but this just isn't a very good example.

Haha yep

​@@DyslexicMitochondria OMG Hi! I watch your channeI. Absolutely love your videos bro. U made me fall in love with science haha

Lol

Yeah! I love your videos too

Literally everything now is filled with lots of unplanned obsolescence

also" we make myths about them. Man things wasn't really so good quality, many other was more durable as they were more complex (so not much to break) or people weren't sing them so much and actually main reason for lower quality is mass-production. Simply if you want to mass product cheap stuff it has to be made cheap. There is saying in my country "tanio kupujesz - dwa razy kupujesz" (literally: "You buy cheap - you buy twice")

Survivorship Bias is the main thing responsible for that phrase.

This is sentence false, a washing machine, for example, does NOT break up now in a shorter time than 20 or 40 years ago.
There are tests that independent laboratories have performed on the subject.
What is true is that: repair in not as cheap as it used to be, there are less independent repair shops around. It is much less easy to repair things. At the same time new items are more efficient (less energy, less water, less detergent, clothes come out with less wrinkles) and there is a trade off that people needs to balance.

@@nathanberrigan9839 Sure but especially in electronics, it was standard to build things with screws and to publish full schematics so you or an independent technician can repair it.

Humans are interesting. It is mostly the fault of the companies, but the individual humans do not help by always craving the latest and greatest version.

Good luck trying to change the wealthy 1% minds.
I bet we will head towards "pay your climatic survival tools" instead of "stop climate change".
Unless everyone stops asking their neighbours to do stupid behavipural changes and star demanding the governments and companies

And they also worked out its actually a select few criminal groups even in the world that are responsible for like 90% of the worlds spam emails so if we just got interpol to crack down on them once and for all we could end both a nuisance that has plagued the world since the internet began and also take a chunk out of the global carbon footprint

@@umbium eat the rich ?

In George Carlin's words, "The planet is fine, the _people_ are fucked!"

We are living a capitalistic world

engineer: but why that's stupid !
business person: shut up if you wanna keep that salary
engineer: okay

@@tmpEngine my experience as a corporate engineer. kept my job 1 week. left with big balls and an empty wallet.

So basically people will only have good lasting things in paradise when all dishonest people are gone. I guess this world is currently catering the rich and greedy. Sad.

Make 25 lamps from materials out of one

@@juniorsir9521 or when the engineers and workers have more say in the operations and practices of industry. A democratization of the workplace, if you will. Less power to CEOs and shareholders and more power to the backbone: the producers and laborers.

conveniently ignored it seems

Sackler family goes brrrrr

This logic only works in the USA though - in the rest of the world healthcare is not a free market and is extremely tightly regulated, as well as containing research funded by charities and government organizations.

@@madattaktube /\ _This!_ /\

decrease people's lifespan so they have lots of kids, then money go brrr

usb (although I believe in serial port superiority)

That's because the people most likely to become successful top executives have sociopathy / psychopathy.
You usually don't get rich by being generous and virtuous.

@@vorpal22 ... or just an average person.

@@vorpal22 i think like you. thats a solid point

@@eltwarg6388 Studies have shown that people with sociopathy are more likely to be successful in business, or be complete failures in life, while people without this personality disorder are less likely to be successful businesspeople. Certainly that doesn't imply that every CEO is a psychopath, but a disproportionate number of CEOs are psychopaths.

They did the same to LED bulbs as they did to incandescent in 2015, if you got an early one, it' still works, after that, they put a component in it as a countdown timer. - Sorry. You can still make your own though ... Open it up, and replace it with an LED and a resistor, but be quick - it will be part of the LED's soon, if not already

watch technology connections video on the same topic buster. he doesn't mention the fact the bulb in the firehouse isn't even a functioning light, yeah its got a warm glow but good luck even seeing your dick if that was the only light source you had in your house

Someone already called dibs on that one

Did you want them to get sued!!!!!

I think that was their internal name for the project.

I hate how smart this comment is

Already in use by the mother conspiracy

I don’t blame him for releasing unneeded laborers. I might blame him for shorting the customer. I don’t blame him, if he had just wanted you manual load times to be faster but used the packing efficiency argument to show his concern, without directly calling you slow.

I mean you kinda did that to yourself if he was paying you to help and you showed him he could just use the tractor without needing you at all.

You optimized yourself out. Welcome to the world. Happens when you automate your job too much, your employer finds that you are not needed any more, sadly that employer is short sighted, cause he can use you to automate more stuff instead.

ha :D

Never seen wood measured in gallons. Thanks for the laugh :D

Sources for him being wrong?

@@xVDRx to put it very briefly longer lasting bulbs have thicker filaments which need more power to reach the same brightness' so if a 60w bulb is about as bright as a 100w that lasts considerably longer, you would likely save money in the long term using a bulb that uses less power since incandescent light bulbs were dirt cheap, the channel technology connections has a video that goes into great detail.
edit: i just checked and apparently in 1945, 1 light bulb cost around 10 cents.

@@James64 & @somniad thanks for such a valuable piece of information on why we use these light bulbs, as cheap they are and replacing LEDs (now) would be cheaper than paying thousands in bills for higher energy costs. This piece of info should be brought to light.... (get that inbuilt joke)

Capitalism is just fundamentally incompatible with responsible use of resources, because it pursues short term goals. I don't think capitalism is all bad but as a society we need accept that we can't have our cake and eat it.

Yeah, as soon as we moved into our new house my little sister broke a light bulb.

sales were down by almost 50% in 2 years.. in 4 the number may have fallen way more, people would lose their jobs, cuz they need to make less lightbulbs, and if lights didn't got any more expensive, then yeah, they might have to file bankruptcy ; -;)

​@@KStone22 but the problem is, she would always break the light, but the new light would last 1000 hours and had to be replaced, and that is way faster than how many times she would break a bulb

Kevin, watch the light! Kevin! Kevin, watch the light dude! *crash*

@@nmb-u- what if it was during the time after ww2 when the population boomed

The other end to this is the fact that a lot of these companies will offer discounts on purchases of new products in exchange for the old items. They make a sale at a small loss for the discount, but in return they get the old items from you that they can reuse and repurpose. Our resources are finite.. this is the only way that I could see one justifying planned obsolescence. I still don't like it tho. 😒

youre dead on, pollution is primarily an issues with mega corps, not your average person. but they're great at shifting the blame onto straws ffs

It will not happen until they are *forced* to change, either by us or by the environment.

@@alwaystired1 This is why public recycling is a sham. Over 90% of what you put in recycling ends up in a garbage dump anyway, but you are asked to recycle so that blame is shifted away from corporations.

It’s a very interesting problem, is growing a company a bad thing, what happens if we make things last forever, will you be able to pay for your next meal or pay for the roof over your head? I believe greed is fundamentally wired into us. It’s such a hot topic and I can’t even begin to think how we can combat it because at the end of the day everyone wants to be successful and wants to build up their company and who has the right to tell them that they should run there company into the ground because it’s morally right when they worked there ass off to get there. Who knows maybe where looking at this in the wrong way. I have no data on this and it’s purely my opinion.

Yeah similar story with the sugar cane industry. And they managed to get weed illegal up to this point because of their scheming

Now imagine what the oil, beef, and defence contractors get up to

@@scarlace weed was banned in large part to enforce apartheid, but also to protect the petrochemical industry, as hemp can reproduce the lions share of their products

@@uncannyvalley2350 agriculture gets more than all of those, grains and cheap crops has always, and will always be slave food

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Literally

Louis is going on vacation. Not a joke, in his last video he said he's taking a break and going away.

The poor guy needs it. Have you seen the bags under his eyes!?

Lol, you bet.

LED bulbs are
Can last 50x longer than incandescent ones but due to planned obsolescence they last way less than incandescent ones

This is fixalbe if you have some electric know-how as a consumer, but the point still stands.
Also, it's not just "overclocked on purpose to die", but more like small leds are cheaper, and people want bright bulbs, so the industry pushes small leds for small the small profit compared to larger, more suitable leds for the given output.

Company sells light bulbs that never go out = more money in the short run, and will probably ruin a industry.
Company sells light bulbs that go out after a year= more money in the long run, and more jobs for people.
It's really just about money for these businesses. Apple probably is 20 years ahead of what they put out.

Well, no, it's not clocked at all. It's that they run at too high a current.

@@sedme0 Both statements can be correct when we're discussing % duty cycles in Pulse Width Modulation

@@gregfaris6959 No, because then the clock is still the same. Overclocked means increased frequency, not increased duty cycle.

True, but you sure seem GOOD at designing these built-in defects.

Engineers can’t win or lose. The customers and corporations want it one way while the other want it’s another…
Now I understand not to blame the engineers for doing their job… but to become an engineer myself and make improvements so i the customer is happy and the corporation can think for themselves for once…
I’ve improved many things. They were actually better then the originals there’s always room for improvement.

​@@matthewsalvador9783
If you did the then Megacorps would make you be arrested
The video above said it
Those that make Lightbulb more durable then get fine in proportion as how durable they are

My issue isn't with engineers, it's when poor design makes the usable product fail prematurely (within warranty periods, for instance), when a very inexpensive modification would prevent the warranty costs for the manufacturer and frustration from the consumer. Like a $.25 piece of plastic to prevent water from dripping on a $500 controller.

​@matthewsalvador9783 my problem is when things that need to be worked on are designed to be difficult to work on.

@@anonwithamnesia Let say you made a ever lasting phone . You can only sell what 7 billion after that you have to move on

I think the solution is to "embrace the change". Train the people to not just get stuck in one job but rotate their jobs. This way if we have reached pinnacle of light bulb we can use the workforce for some other challenge. Skill set of individual should free them not trap them in a job.
The software industry has embraced this. People in IT keep learning throughout their career. If they don't learn they get irrelevant. The learning pace is cut throat as well. Learning is good for individuals! It basically gives the individual the confidence to stand in the face of change.

@@testacals Oh woe is me, after getting stupid rich off of a single invention now I might have to use my genius-level intellect capable of creating an everlasting phone for some other productive thing, rather than sitting on that single achievement for the rest of my life and three generations of my heirs doing the same.

@@marzipancutter8144 that might be the reason why you are not a businessman

@@moving.quotes THIS

More like every six days lol

That is genius.
Which is why they had nothing to fear of the ever lasting fiber he would not be able to wear that suit past labor day.

He forgot to add, and poison the world with it's refuse.

fashion is a way to make you buy products you don't need

@Questa Semplice Animazione 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

planned obsolesce is just a crutch for a bad business model. It is never a good thing when a competitor can offer your product that lasts on top of a differing business model that extends profits.

Completely agree

@מחמד חנזיר automation will change this dynamic though, otherwise I too support planned obsolescence

@מחמד חנזיר by abandoning capitalism in favor of a system that isn't as ludicrously shortsighted.

This is how people should think

Haven't seen a fan clog in a decade+ but the modern version is poor quality thermal paste (often under cpu "lid" itself) or fan bearings and capacitors failing in the 3-10 year mark. If enterprise-use computers are an option they're better for this due to higher standards and longer customer memories.

@@ryanl3423 yea man. I have a dell laptop from 10 years ago. And i have just recently open it up and there weren't much dust. And i really hate the conpanies who solders everything on the motherboard. It is just so expensive to replace

*cough* Apple *cough*

Smart Phones is a better example. FairPhone is trying to combat that, but im not sure how honest their are or if its just another marketing tactic.
The name of the problem is called Capitalism.
I'm not sure why not more people can understand this...

@@gumfrogCH * Lenin gets up from his grave *

This.
All my coats are 10+ years old lol
I even bought an LG V20 at the end of it's "career" because it was the only phone I could buy with a replaceable battery.
Just bought a new li-po battery for it because there's no way in hell I am paying the price of today's phone + plan, as long as the damn thing turns on and I can call/text/gps, I'm going to keep using it.

I have underwear from highschool 😂😂😂

every year for a new car... sure, if I can rent it as a service for a minuscule monthly price..
there are also other kinds of planned obsolescence, in the software world. I would use my 2013 Samsung galaxy s4 still, but my banking and post-office applications just started complaining, that for them to keep updating and hence for me to continue their use, I would need to update the phone´s operating system from android 5, which was the last update to it, or they would seize to work. which would mean buying the latest cheap phone with the latest operating system, or deleting the old operating system from the phone and crack it to install a new unofficial operating system, which is, of course, not officially supported by Samsung.
but still, the software-side short cycle of official support policy continues on the newest phones too, maybe at two years worth of operating system updates, at max. not even that is promised by all phone makers.
the korean s4 had been working just fine, just replaced a battery once, so ill keep it as a backup phone if decide to change to a cheap Chinese one. of which components will probably start failing in a year.

@@Redmanticore I keep my note 3 around as a backup and even gave a few battery packs that I can can charge independently. All of my newer phones have non-removable batteries which used to bother me.
I like that I can use my Note 8 in the shower... even after buying a used Galaxy Fold fromfriend, I still keep my SIM in the note because it's so versatile for my rough use.

I didn't buy any new clothes in 2020, cause I have a washing machine and reuse my clothes..
In 2021 o far I have bought socks

The Wonka Candy Company does make a product called Everlasting Gobstoppers and has done so for decades. The fact that they come in a box with many candies shows that they clearly aren't actually "everlasting".

Rick from Pawn Stars bought the Everlasting Gobstopper

@@marsjam4117 Except that is a plastic prop, whereas I am talking about the actual IRL candy that has been sold under the Willy Wonka name by Breaker Confections since 1976.

@@GlassDeviant
And Alexander The Mediocre was talking about the fictional candy from the book/movie that was literally everlasting. *shrug*

What i learned here : because the companys stealing from me, i have a right to steal from them!

yup, capitalism is evil

this video is daft. long lasting bulbs were a dreadful idea. short lasting bulbs were an advantage to everyone. they cost less to run and made more light. bulbs cost pennies and are a disposable good, making them last longer at the cost of using far more power is asinine.

You obvoisly didnt finish the video, modern bulbs last 10k+ hrs, are qay brighter and use a fraction of the energy to power, what is cheaper, 10 bulbs that last 1k hrs or 1 bulb that lasts 10k? The 1k hr bulbs will take more man hours to make and cost more to ship for the same lifespan

China has reinvented the short lasting bulb.
Instead of using 10 diodes at 1w, they drive the same diodes at 2w and use only 5.
So they save a few pennies, and the overdriven diodes only last a fraction of the time they could have.

@@KarldorisLambley Bro, enough. If you have to intentionally make products bad for the economy not to self-destruct then that system is obviously flawed. You aren't fooling anyone here. Instead of wasting all your energy attempting to keep the human race in a constant state of ignorance-induced limbo, try to figure out a better alternative to the volatile system that is Capitalism.

@@KarldorisLambley I agree. Would love to know how efficient that bulb is for that pitiful 0.1 candela amount of light

Henry Ford built model T , model A , and 8n tractor to be serviceable & useable, as long as possible, and he did not “run-out of customers”. That economic “downturn” was a construct .

Just one symptom of an underlying broken economic system.

This is why we support products that are not proprietary in nature. (like apple) That helps, but does not fully solve the issue, of course.

And then Apple claims to be eco-friendly, while lobbying to prevent their devices from being repaired, or designing their devices to brick on component swaps. Disgusting.

Carbon and End of Life Disposal tax would put a dent in that ideology.

@@TheHumanSystem android isn't much better. Operating systems continually advance. Old phones can't run latest Android or apps. Apple suck for sure but don't kid yourself that it isn't happening elsewhere.
Look up Sonos and their bricking of gen 1 speakers on purpose...