On 11/13/2010 07:54 PM, CaveLamb wrote:

And interesting essay.
But will people buy products designed to be repaired?


http://consumerist.com/2010/11/the-s...ectronics.html

Part of this is because designing stuff to be repaired is difficult.
But part of this is because one hour of repair time in the US costs many
man-days of labor in the country where the electronics got manufactured.

As the Chinese and Indians Malaysians and whoever get into wage-parity
with us, it'll be more sensible to spend an hour of our time instead of
just chucking something and spending man-days of some Chinese guy's time.

Then the market will start demanding reparable stuff, and you'll see it
happen. It'll just be basic market forces at work.

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