A Case of Over-Engineered

February 28, 2008

Toaster over engineered
Photo: Dailymail Uk

“The Dailymail Uk screams :”Crumbs! The toaster that’s still going 56 years on.” It goes:

When Joan Lopes picked out a shiny silver toaster as a present for her parents, little did she realize it would still be working some 56 years later. Since she bought it in 1951, the simple but stylish two-slicer has browned to perfection thousands of pieces of bread - along with the occasional teacake - serving three generations of the same family.”

This has been a pet hate of mine for years, the sheer waste of making things with built in Planned Obsolescence… just so corporations can keep building more junk, making more money, making consumers work longer hours to pay for more consumer goods that last for still shorter periods, leaving the consumers; that’s you, stressed and depressed, whilst their kids are diagnosed with ADHD; largely because their parents are never there, leading to more consumption, only this time for drugs which don’t seem to work and in the case of antidepressants have side effects that… get this, can cause depression.

Sorry

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Written by Beam · Filed Under People, Political, Sustainability 

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