"An article that doesn't spoil is a tragedy for business." This maxim, unsettling for consumers with limited purchasing power (the majority), appeared in an advertising magazine in 1928. Curiously, this sentence has not expired: it has been the motto on which the capitalist production system is based for more than 80 years, and the reason that explains why large companies agreed that products as common as the electric light bulb, nylon stockings or current printers are designed to break, after a while of use.
Authors: TECNOSOSTENIBLE - Engineering of comfort and energy efficiency