"Planned obsolescence." Good gravy, it's nice to see intelligent usage of appropriate vocabulary and culturally significant terms in action. Also, I agree with your statement wholeheartedly. It's the rampant and paranoid increase in corporate greed and hoarding that has made this great country of ours plunge headlong into rapid reverse progress. For example, we used to be known worldwide for our cars made in America, built to last, made from chrome and steel. That's now "modified" to "lighter" cars with everything outsourced (and Detroit declaring bankruptcy), built to crash with random cheaply made parts that make the car so unsafe they get recalled every so often, and a body made of plastic flimsier than a candy bar wrapper so that if you touch a squirrel's tail hair left in the street you'll spin out and dent your front fender, equaling a lot of money spent on body work (usually because the specialty factory paint is unmatchable and you have to take it to the dealership). That's just one example. But plastic is so cheap and easy to make, which is why Garbage Island continues to grow out in the ocean, with an estimated half-life that exceeds mankind's entire existence on Earth.
Is it normal most people with IPHONE dont take care of it ever?
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"Planned obsolescence." Good gravy, it's nice to see intelligent usage of appropriate vocabulary and culturally significant terms in action. Also, I agree with your statement wholeheartedly. It's the rampant and paranoid increase in corporate greed and hoarding that has made this great country of ours plunge headlong into rapid reverse progress. For example, we used to be known worldwide for our cars made in America, built to last, made from chrome and steel. That's now "modified" to "lighter" cars with everything outsourced (and Detroit declaring bankruptcy), built to crash with random cheaply made parts that make the car so unsafe they get recalled every so often, and a body made of plastic flimsier than a candy bar wrapper so that if you touch a squirrel's tail hair left in the street you'll spin out and dent your front fender, equaling a lot of money spent on body work (usually because the specialty factory paint is unmatchable and you have to take it to the dealership). That's just one example. But plastic is so cheap and easy to make, which is why Garbage Island continues to grow out in the ocean, with an estimated half-life that exceeds mankind's entire existence on Earth.