Orion Group

[Diana]

this is called "Producing stuff for the trash can". Manufacturers will deliberately produce low quality, so that the consumers need to get new stuff as often as possible.

It's called "planned obsolescence," and is worked into marketing and business plans.

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I was talking today about the importance of "ownership". And how ownership was an illusion. We work all of our lives to some day own a house and property, but if you do not continue to pay it is taken. No matter where you are, you pay taxes to continue to remain where you are. So in reality all we do is lease.

I like to think that I am a steward, and that I don't own my property, for instance, I am caretaker of it. I would be caretaker of any environment I was in--even an apartment, and the tree outside of the apartment, and the plant life and animals within my current domain.