Obsolescencia programada
Enviado por bonys • 27 de Noviembre de 2012 • 302 Palabras (2 Páginas) • 888 Visitas
OBSOLESCENCIA PROGRAMADA
Planned obsolescence is one of the euphemisms used in economics to hide
many harmful practices that are intended to benefit only a few. As Annie
Leonard says in The Story of Stuff, obsolescence program "is making conscious
consumer product that will become obsolete in the near term by a fault or
deficiency incorporated programmed". This documentary produced by TVE
shows new edges and realizes many products specifically designed to stop
working just to meet the warranty.
The economic motivation that producers have to produce products with a limited
shelf life is intentionally induce customers to keep buying new versions of these
products as the former fails or dies. This raises the usual question: Why the
market does not punish producers using planned obsolescence, and does not
benefit the production of durable goods? The answer is that the current market
system is only interested in the price factor, and is the price, a financial factor,
which regulates all modern economies?
As modern economies are based on debt and credit, most of the products are
planned to last while still paying, in such a way to create a dependency between
production, consumption and credit, where financial flows constitute the motor
moves central to the economy, making the financial system justifies its
existence. Planned obsolescence "is the secret engine of our consumer
society."
This is the real waste of the system, and as this happens, express benefit large corporations, the limited resources of the planet are depleted and the
environment is affected by mountains of waste that diminish quality of life. It is
the great paradox of the current capitalist model that allows companies to
produce and sell products designed to fail in a short time, just to keep the
system afloat artificially, with a false idea of growth, while the environment and
consumers are big losers.
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