Since the early age man have created products to satisfy everybody's needs. However, companies have also specialized in creating products with an stipulated life time. This first started in the 1930's with the Light bulb conspiracy. The light bulb conspiracy describes the plan of the light bulb makers and their companies to intentionally create a decrease in the light bulbs usage hours in order for people to invest more on light bulbs once the first ones were damaged. After using this system to create more income in their companies, many other companies followed. Light bulbs had a radical decrease of their hours of usage, from 25000 hours to a 1000. This is a clear evidence how planned obsolescence has been slowly introduced to the public to buy more products. Since the light bulb "cartel", production has increased due to planned obsolescence.
Today, planned obsolescence is seen as people always buying the newest version or trend. As this happens, companies get rid of their old products using third world countries as a dumpster. Specialist say that if consumerism meant happiness, that was not true, because in the time of Marx, people buyed 26 times less and people are not happier now, so that means happiness is subjective. Planned obsolescence had led to a consumerism culture were the economy and the jobs are based on how things damage and they have to be replaced by new ones.
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