<p dir="ltr">On Oct 5, 2016 11:49 AM, "Darin Sunley" <<a href="mailto:dsunley@gmail.com">dsunley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Doesn't mean there's a point for us or anyone we'd advise.</p>