Godammn vacuum cleaner broke. Took it apart, its just a part of the brush roller that is broken. Should be an easy fix. But they don't sell spare parts for my vacuum. They never have, they just want you to buy a new one. So one little easily replaced plastic bit makes the whole thing into non-functional mostly plastic waste. The vacuum is even clearly designed to be easily repaired, it's one of the most intelligently laid out appliances I've ever seen.
But it's not profitable to sell spare parts, so I have to send this thing to a landfill if I can't figure out some ghetto fix. This intentional wastefulness is one of the things that pisses me off about capitalism nearly every day.
See, shit like this just blows my mind. I think that capitalism has reached it's peak looking around at the landscape here in the UK, and then I hear shit like that and realise that it can and will get so much worse.
I don't see how even the most lib-est of Libs could support carrier locking, surely they'd see the argument of 'it's my personal property, I should be able to do what I want with it?'.
Liberals here often don't think about it like that anymore. It's not your property to do whatever you want with, it's you paid for a service and any physical goods involved are incidental. It's like capitalism here is begining to transcend physical reality.