[ExI] who woulda think it?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Oct 5, 2016 11:49 AM, "Darin Sunley" <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I never really saw the point of taking a basic tool, with heirloom
potential - it will be precisely as functional a hundred years from now as
it is the day you bought it, if it's reasonably well taken care of - and
intimately integrating it with a component that will be comically obsolete
before the decade is out, and that is likely to become completely
nonfunctional within a decade under normal day-to-day wear and tear.

Planned obsolescence: the point is to dupe those dupes who don't think of a
thing's use years from now, and then sell essentially the same thing to
them year after year.

Doesn't mean there's a point for us or anyone we'd advise.
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