Obsolescencia programada

OBSOLESCENCIA PROGRAMADA

Planned obsolescence is one of the euphemisms used in economics to hide

many harmful practices that are intended to benefit only a few. As Annie

Leonard says in The Story of Stuff, obsolescence program "is making conscious

consumer product that will become obsolete in the near term by a fault or

deficiency incorporated programmed". This documentary produced by TVE

shows new edges and realizes many products specifically designed to stop

working just to meet the warranty.

The economic motivation that producers have to produce products with a limited

shelf life is intentionally induce customers to keep buying new versions of these

products as the former fails or dies. This raises the usual question: Why the

market does not punish producers using planned obsolescence, and does not

benefit the production of durable goods? The answer is that the current market

system is only interested in the price factor, and is the price, a financial factor,

which regulates all modern economies?

As modern economies are based on debt and credit, most of the products are

planned to last while still paying, in such a way to create a dependency between

production, consumption and credit, where financial flows constitute the motor

moves central to the economy, making the financial system justifies its

existence. Planned obsolescence "is the secret engine of our consumer

society."

This is the real waste of the system, and as this happens, express benefit large corporations, the limited resources of the planet are depleted and the

environment is affected by mountains of waste that diminish quality of life. It is

the great paradox of the current capitalist model that allows companies to

produce and sell products designed to fail in a short time, just to keep the

system afloat artificially, with a false idea of growth, while the environment and

consumers are big losers.

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