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What makes life unfair to you?
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Life? Unfair to me?
I'd say it's all in the Right To Repair movement Vs Planned Obsolescence. I grew up learning how to fix stuff, make stuff, swap parts, etc.
And I still have those skills, but these days the big companies don't want the little guys to have access to proprietary parts and tools anymore, making many repairs that would otherwise be pretty easy actually almost impossible.
They just want you to throw away all your old stuff every year or two and buy an entire new product. I don't care what if any deity you believe in, I don't think the good spirit intended on people throwing everything away and turning Earth into a huge dumpster.
Same. I grew up rebuilding bicycles and skateboards. I made toys to go with my other toys.
Fighting back against this nightmare world takes it out of me. People keep complaining about my tools and equipment because they think it's some kind of compulsive disorder.
Telling people I do repairs, innovations and inventions on the side sounds like a mental health crisis. They don't see the brainwashing they've been put through as the problem.
It may sound like I'm a conspiracy theorist, but companies and other entities out there who're actively denying people to self-repair, are knowingly complacent with the idea of keeping people dumb.
So yes, I believe in planned obsolescence, simply because removing the right to repair, voiding warranties, not allowing information to be shared. It's all part of a scheme to keep people dumb and reliant on throwing away more money to these companies and indirectly committing victimless crimes like polluting and adding to the problems of landfills.
No. It’s all part of a scheme to make money. That’s it. People aren’t against you; they’re for themselves.