Planned obsolescence has a silver lining: making affordable goods accessible to more consumers.

“But bottom line, like we're kind of dragging planted ops lessons through the mudd a little bit, right. But even with that being said, I think there's a silver lining to planned ops lescens that that I think is important to point out, and that's the fact that it allows for there to be more affordable goods available to more people who otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to make that purchase. Right, So, not everyone can afford the nicest or even like the middle of the road option. So going back to the cooler example, like sometimes the most affordable five dollars option is going to be all that someone can.”

“And going back to the smartphone example, the pixel phones can be in the two hundred and something dollar range when the newest iPhones are like twice as much a thousand dollars or more oftentimes, so exactly, yeah, it's a big discrepancy, and so yeah they're not gonna last as long, but man, they. Costs a lot more a lot less money. Yeah. I think the most important thing here though, is that there are options for folks, and I think a lot of times this is when folks might want to demonize capitalism to us an extent, they're like, oh, of course they're just out for profits and they're you know, they're going to break my phone. Whatever it is that folks we're saying out there. But fact is, if that means that there is somebody who has access to a supercomputer basically in their pocket and they're trying to climb the ranks of society, and for a lot of folks that means being able to be in touch with an employer if if they're trying to reach out or fill a shift something like that. I think there are a lot of advantages for something like a more affordable phone as opposed to dropping a thousand bucks on not even the newest iPhone, but maybe one that's been released fairly recently. Yeah.”