1/ehhhh there's SOME truth here, but it's only part of the story government mandated emission controls and fuel efficiency standards have a ton to do with it - diesel tractor engines now have mandated DPF filters, which are controlled by microprocessors to run a burn off cyclehttps://twitter.com/jeffnolan/status/1337267106165886976 …
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4/ to people who see cars lose 15% of their value the second they roll off of the dealer's lots, but a tractor is closer to table saw - there are Powermatics from 1950 that work just as well today as they day they were delivered (bc they're overbuilt, well maintained
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5/ and are not subjected to road salt). I dislike "right to repair" (even though I repair all of my own tools), because it's a clever marketing slogan for an assault on intellectual property rights. It says that a vendor can not have a business model with X cost up front and
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6/ Y cost later ... and yet, this is a core financial technique that creates consumer surplus! anyway I'd like to rant more re maintaining tractors, IP law, & incentives...but I need to get back to creating some IP on the topic of maintaining tractors (i.e.
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7/ No, because there is a distinction. If I sell a tractor for
$X and parts for$Y, then I create price discrimination where a less wealthy person can buy the tractor but repair his own parts / ad hoc, and the other guy can buy factory parts >>>https://twitter.com/SumErgoMonstro/status/1337799526694985736 …Show this thread -
8/ this creates more utility for both buyers and sellers ; setting one price creates "deadweight loss" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss … also, I reject your framing "just be honest". It is perfectly honest to sell a tractor and also parts / manuals / code testers.
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9/ yes, the marketing / concept is wonderful ...but the reality is that it's just USG mandating that vendors can't sell their manuals (thus reducing incentives to create good manuals) and other similar idiocyhttps://twitter.com/jcenters/status/1337800395343753219 …
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10/ I claim it generally. https://twitter.com/falseworkidol/status/1337806187304275969 …
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11/ Side thread here ->https://twitter.com/pjsempe/status/1338084782257926144?s=19 …
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