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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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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Then be honest and lease the Item to people instead of “selling” them. Telling someone they own something but can’t repair it themselves is BS.
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I’m in favor of right to repair in theory, but I don’t know how it would be enforced, especially by ham-handed, technically incompetent governments. Would Apple have to design MacBooks like old ThinkPads? (Which would be kinda cool tbh.)
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Also 'right to repair' gets a lot of impetus from the basic contract disputes centered on the warranty. And the companies have destroyed much goodwill with the customers behaving like the worst health insurance providers.
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> It says that a vendor can not have a business model with X cost up front and Y cost later I think this is similar to an issue with cars. Gov’t regulations mean that your absolute basic car is safer, fuel efficient, etc. But it also means that absolute bare bones car you ...
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... could get in the 70s just no longer exists. The problem isn’t just that you can’t have X now, it’s that you also can’t offer products with a business model of X/2 at all
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