I was reading The Ubyssey, and I came accross an article on how companies make there products with a short lifetime so that they can make more sales in the future. I felt really satisfied after reading the article because I think that I deserved to know this sad truth about the products in the market. All these products are made with material that is cheap and really low in quality, which saves costs. The other good thing about using this strategy for the business is to be able to sell their products in the future. As companies keep innovating their products they would obviously want to have a market for them. They make products with a lifetime of a couple of years and after that with innovation in technology it would be better to buy the newer model instead of getting the old one repaired.
There are two easily observable issues with this production technique. Firstly we can not afford to have so much waste in the world. All of these products ahve to be dumped and wasted and most of them are not recyclable or eco-friendly. With global warming and pollution becoming such issues we need to be start thinking about this issue. It is because of our ignorance that recent statistics are showing that one carbon footprint of someone in the west harms 22 people in the developing countries. So we definitely have to address this issue before it boils out of the kettle. Secondly firms and marketing agents who are marketing such products with out informing the customers about it. I think that is a moral, social and ethical issue. I think some fair trade and business organizations should start investigationg this.
Please take time out to lead the article. http://ubyssey.ca/features/technology-built-to-break-planned-obsolescence/