Submitted by shanoshamanizum t3_11bgvlw in Futurology
UniversalMomentum t1_ja0loc7 wrote
I don't see how that is possible or necessary. You have a clandestine view of how products are made.
It's more like these things up an idea and maybe gets it to Market and through many cycles of iteration the product improves while also every new generation of Engineers want to have their chance to try to design a product or add new features and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
What about the damage it might do to Innovation and Engineering if you plan for your products to essentially never get upgrades?
Sorry nds like less jobs and less Innovation to me.
What Is the supposed upside here?
Think if the supposed upside is like waste you should just plan for robotic automation to clean up most of the waste that your business models can't.
If it's just a way to better products for consumers keep in mind a lot of people need that lowest possible purchase price option to for the product to be within their comfortable price ranges.
Cuz you make a product that lasts longer doesn't mean people are going to buy that product if also made the product cost more and normally to make a product last longer it also does cost more.
And see how there's some motivation to do this, but what you're talking about is I will complete Logistics nightmare where you also have to take away a lot of the decision making from the actual companies making the products.
First system where business is act more independent and kind of make their own decisions within and agreed framework of rules and laws versus kind of hurting everyone into the same mindset in an attempt to force a result.
Soo need to have a pretty good incentive on these long-lasting products for consumers and where the business is making them or it's like you're asking the government to take over all manufacturing take the profit out of it and make the products last as long as possible.
Sounds great at first but you have to keep in mind your Innovation Cycles would go down and your rate of progress would also go way down when you do that.
Some products are kind of just suited to be disposable because they're changing rapidly or they get used really hard.
Part of the reason we have batteries this good and screens this good is because people bought so many cell phones they theoretically didn't really need.
Prove the Innovation cycles and now we have cheaper screens and batteries for everything else so the waste did wind up having a payoff that you might be overlooking.
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