America Is Running Out of Everything The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. By Derek Thompson
America Is Running Out of Everything The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. By Derek Thompson
Can't all the capitalists just form a cartel and not actually lower prices and compete with each other?
It's like how they can probably make lightbulbs that last way longer but everyone decided not to. Dubai specially ordered longer lasting ones that can only be sold there.
People can't consume if they're not getting paid, though.
i don't think that's how it really happens, it's just that you as a consumer can't really see too far beyond the price tag, that would require perfect information that you don't really have (except in extreme cases)
programmed obsolescence is not exactly a conscious choice by all capitalists, it's just an expression of how shit the price system becomes after a certain level of productivity - living in a reality of scarcity, you tend to buy whatever is cheaper because you don't really know how much longer a more expensive choice would last, which makes those products more competitive, which, in turn, forces capitalists to make that choice
it's a downward spiral of waste and overconsumption that everyone is basically forced into just because of how capitalism works
No, the lightbulb thing is definitely real, LED lightbulbs should last forever if they're actually ran to spec.
They design the lightbulbs to overheat the LEDs because they send too much power through them and they die. An LED lightbulb should not be hot to touch but they all are because they don't really care.
This is about the Dubai bulbs, and even veritasium did a video on it
The lightbulb conspiracy is the only one I actually believe in capitalists getting in a room to form a cartel for. That and telecom companies in Canada.