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>More and more shit is not repairable.
There is truth to this.
Designed obsolescence is a thing, though not a formal policy as far as I know.
The way to combat this is to buy things that can be repaired - are designed for that - even if you have to repair it to begin with in order to use it.
Example:
Our power grid is a suggestion. So, I turned to kerosene lanterns as auxiliary lighting and heating (they put out some heat - really).
But the chinky shit they sell anymore isn't worth buying. It's worse than useless because it promises something and delivers nothing.
The German lanterns are pricey, so I got some of those, but they do not last all that long on a tankful.
So, I got some old German lanterns - the big yellow fuckers they made for the railroad that will run for days on one tankful of kerosene.
But they have not made them for decades and new old stock doesn't exist.
So, you buy the beat up used stuff, mend them, paint them, put them back into working order and back into circulation they go.
>They've turned life into a disposable commodity.
Subscription service, but yeah. Point taken.