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Somehow our lord the efficient market decided that maintenance and repair are only for industrial scale things and consumer scale things must be inexorably driven to replace > repair I sometimes wonder if there’s a deeper fundamental theory there beyond economies of scale
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More directly to your point, I think we're failing to design consumer goods for maintainability. Especially when it comes to things like smartphones and lots of newer auto parts, the supply-side seems to prefer inexpensive manufacturing over modularity.
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