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"It was the concept of planned obsolescence: where people once took pride in owning durable things, now they favored buying stuff—clothes, technology—that would break quickly or become unfashionable, so they could purchase more."

It was manufacturers who drove the shift to planned obsolescence, not consumer demand... Selling more stuff is a lot more attractive than buying more stuff.