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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What kinds of items do you have in mind here? Third party computer / cell phone / car repair are ubiquitous, and I can't think of much else I'd have repaired outside of a warranty

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Household stuff, clothes...
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It is because the costs of trash utilisation ignore the impact on the environment. If you were to pay full costs (instead of postponing it to future generations), you would think twice before throwing something away.
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Total quality management made repair pointless for most things - they're perfect at the point of manufacture, and they didn't need to be designed for fixing ("rework") on the production line. It's all a side effect of quality control. Most things are.
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Software freedom is about the right to repair, because the QC can't be total for software, it's too complex.
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repairing is like psychotherapy, each case is broken in a different way
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Exactly. I see this is the problem — it’s just too hard (lots of time of trained people) to figure it out. And, honestly, very few things break! It’s pretty damn amazing, all things considered.
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Repairs are, nearly always, "custom" -- and true customization (not just preplanned choice) costs $$$. Even if it is just the diagnosis of the problem that is custom, rather than the part itself, that unit of labor dominates the repair cost (vs. replacement of consumer goods).
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Capitalism bro. It’s cheaper to replace, IF you don’t take into account negative externalities and assume that everyone needs the newest shiny dongle
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Cars are still worth repairing. Mega chemical factories + cheap nat gas + cheap assembly due to globalized transit = low cost goods delivered to a country where local skilled-enough repair ppl are $50+/hr. If it can’t be repaired in less than ($purchase price/$50) hours, buy new
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