Starting to notice the sheer number of things that can’t be disassembled without breaking. Is there a design term for this?
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Agreed! I used to work in product design. We used to talk about "design for assembly" (DfA) and "design for disassembly" (DfDA), and promote the idea that a product that is easy to disassemble _tends_ to be easier to assemble and repair as well.
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Since assembly costs money, easier assembly should've been attractive. Unfortunately, there are things like internal press clips molded into plastic that can make a product cheap to assemble but next to impossible to disassemble nonviolently.
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Amen. Repair-ability is real
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iFixit scores laptops & phones based on their repairability index. Doesn't seem to stop people from buying Apple, which has grown more hostile towards upgrades over time, as Asian emulators followed suit. They also oppose "right to repair" laws.
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Realistically, biggest problem is cost. Most stuff got cheap enough & improves fast enough to incentivize replacement, partly because pollution/landfill costs are socialized, not born by the beneficiaries.
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Related: you may not even have the right to open it and fix ithttps://www.eff.org/issues/right-to-repair …
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There should be a pigouvian tax on planned obsolescence but instead there’s an implicit subsidy
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Taxation is theft
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I agree with you emotionally, but the tax would likely be *worse* for the environment since repairability almost certainly increases cost/materials/weight and the frequency of repair is vanishingly small.
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A more effective policy would be to simply charge for trash pickup by weight (preferably tiered progressively)
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