Too many products are easier to throw away than fix—consumers deserve a ‘right to repair’::There was a time when the family washing machine would last decades, with each breakdown fixed by the friendly local repair person. But those days are long gone.

    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I disagree. Our planet doesn’t give a shit. It was long before us here and it will remain even longer after last one of us. Our living environment on the other hand is suffering. I know this is semantics we are talking about, but it does point just how stupid we are. It’s tantamount to shitting under your own window and wondering why everything stinks.

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        1 year ago

        Part of the reason why our environment is suffering is that it takes a lot more energy (which causes pollution) and raw materials (which also take energy and cause pollution) to make and ship a new thing than it does to fix the one you have. Sure it’s not a huge percentage overall, but imagine if every thing you had suddenly lasted 3 or 4 times longer. The sheer amount of new things you had to buy would drop substantially, along with all that’s required to produce and sell them to you.

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          1 year ago

          Oh, I don’t speak against right to repair idea. Am just pointing out it’s not planet we need to protect, it’s a mud ball hurtling through universe, but we need to protect our living environment as we have no other to rely on.