Thursday, February 17, 2011

British Mature In Girdles

Ready to throw "a film about the planned obsolescence


Si vous avez manqué cet excellent film sur la logique de notre société de consommation/croissance qui consiste à imagine today a consumer as "ready to throw" to push us to consume more and renewing our goods more quickly, he is free viewing until Tuesday arte:

http://videos .arte.tv/fr/videos/pret_a_jeter-3700234.html

"In Western countries, the plague cons of low-end products that must be replaced constantly. While in Ghana, one of exasperated those arriving by computer waste containers. This pattern of aberrant growth that grows produce and throw even more did not start yesterday. By the 1920s, a formidable concept was developed: the obsolescence programmed. "A product that does not wear is a tragedy for business," read one in 1928 in a journal. Gradually, it forced the engineers to create products that wear out more quickly to increase consumer demand. "

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