On 10/03/2021 09:20, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Jeff Layman
writes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56340077

Will this make any practical difference? If an SMD integrated circuit
goes wrong in a TV, will making the SMD itself available make the TV
"more repairable"? How much will it cost? How much would the complete
circuit board with SMD already fitted cost? Isn't the latter what's
done at present? It seems to me the manufacturers will just charge
what they see fit for the replacement part, no doubt with an
exorbitant P&P to cover "administrative costs".

Playing a green card without cost to the Govt?

Planned obsolescence has been a factor in maintaining employment for so
long, I can't quite spot where this is going.

It all stems from socialism.

Basically we can make a lot of material wealth. With remarkably few
people The problem is how to distribute it. Consumerism creates jobs and
allows the private sector to distribute the wealth instead of the
government being involved.

manufacture, supply, distribution sales, and marketing - all massive job
creation schemes that would be totally unnecessary without obsolescence.

What 'right to repair' does is shift a very few of these jobs to repairmen.

Why socialism? Well its like renewable energy - the alleged aim is to on
the one hand get wealth into peoples paws and on the other, to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions, but teh method chosen becomes an end in itself
that doesnt really help., Instead of jut giving people decent stiff
free, or building nucler power stations, we end up 'creating jobs' or
'renewable energy'

I see no virtue in work. Peole should stay at home and get paid for
doing so. And let the robots build decent stuff that doesn't need
replacing every few years.

We need to decouple wealth creation from 'work' once and for all.



Unreliable imports from Turkey used to prop up repair activities here?

Not many votes in telling manufacturers to give longer free guarantees?




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