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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 1263299" data-attributes="member: 7966"><p>Hardly a conspiracy.</p><p>Planned Obsolescence is taught to every engineering student at Georgia Tech and every other college as well.</p><p>I remember this concept when I took this "Introduction to Engineering" back in 1972 and was taken back by the concept.</p><p>As taught, it was the idea that the engineer should understand the product (light bulb) as a system with a series of individual components that each had an expected lifespan range. A good engineer would analyze all these and not spend wasted money on more expensive quality components if a cheaper one could be found that had a longer lifespan than the weakest component.</p><p>As I remember the professor's words, "Anyone can build a car that will last 50 years" but it takes a great engineer to have all components expected to fail between 7 and 10 years."</p><p></p><p>The only problem is that GM, Ford and Chrysler were building cars that lasted 3 -5 years while the Japanese were building cars that last 10 - 20 years.</p><p></p><p>We all know the rest of the story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 1263299, member: 7966"] Hardly a conspiracy. Planned Obsolescence is taught to every engineering student at Georgia Tech and every other college as well. I remember this concept when I took this "Introduction to Engineering" back in 1972 and was taken back by the concept. As taught, it was the idea that the engineer should understand the product (light bulb) as a system with a series of individual components that each had an expected lifespan range. A good engineer would analyze all these and not spend wasted money on more expensive quality components if a cheaper one could be found that had a longer lifespan than the weakest component. As I remember the professor's words, "Anyone can build a car that will last 50 years" but it takes a great engineer to have all components expected to fail between 7 and 10 years." The only problem is that GM, Ford and Chrysler were building cars that lasted 3 -5 years while the Japanese were building cars that last 10 - 20 years. We all know the rest of the story. [/QUOTE]
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