The electronic waste, which is toxic, gets into limited water supplies in Africa.
People get sick, some bleed and they call it ebola.
That's why one year when some Americans got ebola, 2 were magically cured before even getting treatment just because they were taken away from the toxic areas.
Ebola, like polio, was used to cover up for toxic shit.
They don’t recycle the landfill, there’s very few MERFS, it’s time and labor intensive and nobody buys anything but Al. The biggest part you left out is by law, things have to be made to break in 10 yrs, it was a made law under Clinton. I do agree with the consumerism and true happiness is not material but inward and helping others is true joy. Goods are made cheap plastic that makes them lighter to ship and a hunter fan from 30 yrs ago still works but buy one today and you get 5? Maybe 10. China didn’t sell us out it was our own country ppl and biz and ppl allowed it. I found a WW2 nurses cape, it’s beautiful and in great shape today. Just a caveat to your post
Thanks! I was not aware of such a law. Can you expand upon that?
Good today are often not as good as in the case of fast fashion clothing. You can find better quality in thrift stores.
The other week I stopped in a furniture store just to look around. I was stunned that all of it was plastic made to look like wood. Good grief such cheap junk!
Even plastic and rubber are made to break down, just think about Teslas, it’s literally a one use car, the battery costs more than the value of the car, they’re dangerous and nasty chemicals in those batteries, in fl no landfill accepts batteries. Batteries won’t break down but then again he doesn’t make money on the cars, he makes his money selling fake carbon credits, like that’s gonna save the planet, just another grifter, I could go on and on, recycling never worked but they still send 2 trucks to your house to pick it up, makes ppl virtuous like the mask which is littered everywhere and does no good in fact it causes harm. I’m an environmentalist but that’s not what this is about, EPA was a land grab by Nixon and does as much for the environment as FDA does for health lol. Govt corruption is why I left medical research making mAbs to enviro but I feel like we lost. Wish I had been able to convince more ppl
No, there is no known law signed by President Bill Clinton specifically requiring consumable products to break down within ten years. However, there are laws and policies related to planned obsolescence, environmental regulations, and product durability, which may be the source of this idea.
Possible Related Laws and Policies:
1. Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (1975)
This predates Clinton but regulates warranties to prevent deceptive practices regarding product durability.
2. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 1998)
Signed by Clinton, it restricts consumers from modifying certain digital products, which can contribute to planned obsolescence (though this is more about software than physical breakdown).
3. Environmental Regulations
Clinton’s administration focused on green policies, including promoting recycling and reducing waste, but there was no direct law requiring products to degrade within a set time.
4. International Influence (Right to Repair, E-Waste Laws)
Some European and state-level laws in the U.S. address right to repair and product longevity, but these came later and were not Clinton-era policies.
If you’re thinking of a specific law, do you recall any details about the industry or product type it applied to?
There’s EO 13101 as well, all in the name of recycling. For instance, China bought up most of the leather bc we had to use plastic. See much leather around today? Goods are not made to last which is not best for the environment and pocketbooks. They’re made to beak to spur economic growth
there is law. in my opinion that guy is being incredibly rude after you wrote this great comprehensive price, an alvhe sai was "you left something out" an then made up a made up thing. what an arse.
good writing, sir.
lucyGPT:
No, there is no known law signed by President Bill Clinton specifically requiring consumable products to break down within ten years. However, there are laws and policies related to planned obsolescence, environmental regulations, and product durability, which may be the source of this idea.
Possible Related Laws and Policies:
1. Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (1975)
This predates Clinton but regulates warranties to prevent deceptive practices regarding product durability.
2. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 1998)
Signed by Clinton, it restricts consumers from modifying certain digital products, which can contribute to planned obsolescence (though this is more about software than physical breakdown).
3. Environmental Regulations
Clinton’s administration focused on green policies, including promoting recycling and reducing waste, but there was no direct law requiring products to degrade within a set time.
4. International Influence (Right to Repair, E-Waste Laws)
Some European and state-level laws in the U.S. address right to repair and product longevity, but these came later and were not Clinton-era policies.
If you’re thinking of a specific law, do you recall any details about the industry or product type it applied to?
I saw a docu years ago on TV ( we never have investigative docus now on TV just now & again & about pseudo "issue'..) I was very surprised that apparently consumer products are created now with "built in obsolescence' like Michelle mentions...Shocking that this is allowed but I had not realised its US law..I live in the UK & not sure ifi its law here...I can believe the com panies sneakily creating products that do not last as long as they could but a LAW? One item the docu mentioned was women's 'tights' or 'pantyhose" as tge US calls them....Apparently it's possible to manufacture these so they last for years without 'runs' or holes, tears...
No, there is no known law signed by President Bill Clinton specifically requiring consumable products to break down within ten years. However, there are laws and policies related to planned obsolescence, environmental regulations, and product durability, which may be the source of this idea.
Possible Related Laws and Policies:
1. Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (1975)
This predates Clinton but regulates warranties to prevent deceptive practices regarding product durability.
2. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 1998)
Signed by Clinton, it restricts consumers from modifying certain digital products, which can contribute to planned obsolescence (though this is more about software than physical breakdown).
3. Environmental Regulations
Clinton’s administration focused on green policies, including promoting recycling and reducing waste, but there was no direct law requiring products to degrade within a set time.
4. International Influence (Right to Repair, E-Waste Laws)
Some European and state-level laws in the U.S. address right to repair and product longevity, but these came later and were not Clinton-era policies.
If you’re thinking of a specific law, do you recall any details about the industry or product type it applied to?
I like tights, they’re a little thicker but nobody really wears them except in winter. It’s warmer here in the S US. They also make metals lighter, thin metal prob the weight in shipping is less.
I do as well. It seems like a form of insanity to do otherwise. I avoid Big Box stores like the plague. I feel anxiety even contemplating going in one.
I have my PhD in post-hole digging now haha, and some serious redneck engineering skills, which suits me fine given the direction we are heading in. I don’t want to be a part of it.
I just went and got £300 worth of food from the retail park bins in 2 days an equipped my flat with pots pans furniture book bedding cups, brushes cloths etc.
when I moved in I only owned a back pack worth of stuff.
next is collecting firewood from the woods so I can have a morning fire coffee .
Thank you for writing this with so many accessible comparisons to get our heads around the massive scale of this hot mess.
I first learned (and used to teach my kids about) our consumer-driven economy, planned obsolescence, not paying the true cost of what we buy, and so on, from an animation called "The Story of Stuff" I recommend to people a lot.
One of the best things we can learn and teach is the difference between want and need. I'm poor, so it's a little easier, but I try not to use more than "my [perceived] share," which is still too much (I'm American).
All I know is that nobody should be starving and unhoused while the impossibly rich profit like this.
Thank you for writing this. Years ago I heard, “Use things, love people” in a documentary about minimalism. It struck a chord and I knew I was going to have to change my life significantly.
Back in the days when bitcoin traded for ten cents I understood its potential and planned to buy some for $5000. But alas, life got in the way. Stress, health problems and other issues took priotity and I just did not have the energy to follow through.
Sometimes I ponder... they would be worth 5 billion today. What would I do with all that money? Maybe upgrade my home with a larger garden to grow fruit and veggies? Donate most of it? But to whom and for what? People would queue up and try to scam me out of all that cash. I still dont know after all these years what to do with so much money. Maybe it is good that I did not get into that but learned about life instead.
A few years ago, realizing I was content with my simple life, I stopped pursuing anything for “more”. I fight hard to keep my life as-is. I don’t chase the next big thing, no longer want/expect more from my relationships, I figure out how to make do with my current income and don’t seek or want more money. I make a conscious decision everyday to enjoy my life with all its struggles (which I try to learn from), and find there are many more successes and very few failures. I focus on the things I love, for me: my partner, my family, my garden, healthy delicious food, movement/exercise. Consciously living this way has led me to be happy and free.
One must sit back and realize that we are being marketed to death. Constant advertising, as it has crept into every corner and crevice of our lives, enables excessive materialism. People cannot get enough things to make them happy, fulfilled and satisfied.
It is my personal goal to avoid ALL advertising and I go out of my way to do so as I feel it is an invasion of my privacy. These marketing clowns have NO idea about what I might want or desire and it's none of their business. I do not want them to EVER know me.
There is always something new to buy. It's always the next big thing they gotta have. Because the last "next big thing" failed to deliver on its promises. As you age, hopefully you realize that you don't need all that crap you think you need. If any of the junk you previously purchased "did it for you", you wouldn't need to buy more until it became used up or worn out.
Marketing = consumerism = garage sales = now I can get all the junk I couldn't afford for a cheaper price = garage sales.
I still have outfits from the 1980's.. including 3 dresses by Nichole Miller, and a suit jacket from Barneys. Things were just made so well, they never wear out. I rarely buy new clothes anymore.
On the other hand, I can't help but observe that 'The secret of happiness- is in developing the capacity to enjoy less. – Socrates' reeks of 'You'll own nothing and be happy'.. There is an extreme on either end to be avoided.
So much peace, happiness, and health to be found in simplicity. May we all fill our lives with real things that build self-sufficiency and health. Most of it involves a bit of willpower and elbow grease—all of that is free. Just takes attention and cultivating productive patterns and habits. It is absolutely within reach.
The electronic waste, which is toxic, gets into limited water supplies in Africa.
People get sick, some bleed and they call it ebola.
That's why one year when some Americans got ebola, 2 were magically cured before even getting treatment just because they were taken away from the toxic areas.
Ebola, like polio, was used to cover up for toxic shit.
Virology is a pseudoscience.
They don’t recycle the landfill, there’s very few MERFS, it’s time and labor intensive and nobody buys anything but Al. The biggest part you left out is by law, things have to be made to break in 10 yrs, it was a made law under Clinton. I do agree with the consumerism and true happiness is not material but inward and helping others is true joy. Goods are made cheap plastic that makes them lighter to ship and a hunter fan from 30 yrs ago still works but buy one today and you get 5? Maybe 10. China didn’t sell us out it was our own country ppl and biz and ppl allowed it. I found a WW2 nurses cape, it’s beautiful and in great shape today. Just a caveat to your post
That should be considered, consumer got screwed
Thanks! I was not aware of such a law. Can you expand upon that?
Good today are often not as good as in the case of fast fashion clothing. You can find better quality in thrift stores.
The other week I stopped in a furniture store just to look around. I was stunned that all of it was plastic made to look like wood. Good grief such cheap junk!
Hi Roman
Even plastic and rubber are made to break down, just think about Teslas, it’s literally a one use car, the battery costs more than the value of the car, they’re dangerous and nasty chemicals in those batteries, in fl no landfill accepts batteries. Batteries won’t break down but then again he doesn’t make money on the cars, he makes his money selling fake carbon credits, like that’s gonna save the planet, just another grifter, I could go on and on, recycling never worked but they still send 2 trucks to your house to pick it up, makes ppl virtuous like the mask which is littered everywhere and does no good in fact it causes harm. I’m an environmentalist but that’s not what this is about, EPA was a land grab by Nixon and does as much for the environment as FDA does for health lol. Govt corruption is why I left medical research making mAbs to enviro but I feel like we lost. Wish I had been able to convince more ppl
there is no law.
No, there is no known law signed by President Bill Clinton specifically requiring consumable products to break down within ten years. However, there are laws and policies related to planned obsolescence, environmental regulations, and product durability, which may be the source of this idea.
Possible Related Laws and Policies:
1. Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (1975)
This predates Clinton but regulates warranties to prevent deceptive practices regarding product durability.
2. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 1998)
Signed by Clinton, it restricts consumers from modifying certain digital products, which can contribute to planned obsolescence (though this is more about software than physical breakdown).
3. Environmental Regulations
Clinton’s administration focused on green policies, including promoting recycling and reducing waste, but there was no direct law requiring products to degrade within a set time.
4. International Influence (Right to Repair, E-Waste Laws)
Some European and state-level laws in the U.S. address right to repair and product longevity, but these came later and were not Clinton-era policies.
If you’re thinking of a specific law, do you recall any details about the industry or product type it applied to?
https://p2infohouse.org/ref/10/09642.pdf
There’s EO 13101 as well, all in the name of recycling. For instance, China bought up most of the leather bc we had to use plastic. See much leather around today? Goods are not made to last which is not best for the environment and pocketbooks. They’re made to beak to spur economic growth
there is law. in my opinion that guy is being incredibly rude after you wrote this great comprehensive price, an alvhe sai was "you left something out" an then made up a made up thing. what an arse.
good writing, sir.
lucyGPT:
No, there is no known law signed by President Bill Clinton specifically requiring consumable products to break down within ten years. However, there are laws and policies related to planned obsolescence, environmental regulations, and product durability, which may be the source of this idea.
Possible Related Laws and Policies:
1. Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (1975)
This predates Clinton but regulates warranties to prevent deceptive practices regarding product durability.
2. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 1998)
Signed by Clinton, it restricts consumers from modifying certain digital products, which can contribute to planned obsolescence (though this is more about software than physical breakdown).
3. Environmental Regulations
Clinton’s administration focused on green policies, including promoting recycling and reducing waste, but there was no direct law requiring products to degrade within a set time.
4. International Influence (Right to Repair, E-Waste Laws)
Some European and state-level laws in the U.S. address right to repair and product longevity, but these came later and were not Clinton-era policies.
If you’re thinking of a specific law, do you recall any details about the industry or product type it applied to?
I saw a docu years ago on TV ( we never have investigative docus now on TV just now & again & about pseudo "issue'..) I was very surprised that apparently consumer products are created now with "built in obsolescence' like Michelle mentions...Shocking that this is allowed but I had not realised its US law..I live in the UK & not sure ifi its law here...I can believe the com panies sneakily creating products that do not last as long as they could but a LAW? One item the docu mentioned was women's 'tights' or 'pantyhose" as tge US calls them....Apparently it's possible to manufacture these so they last for years without 'runs' or holes, tears...
No, there is no known law signed by President Bill Clinton specifically requiring consumable products to break down within ten years. However, there are laws and policies related to planned obsolescence, environmental regulations, and product durability, which may be the source of this idea.
Possible Related Laws and Policies:
1. Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (1975)
This predates Clinton but regulates warranties to prevent deceptive practices regarding product durability.
2. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 1998)
Signed by Clinton, it restricts consumers from modifying certain digital products, which can contribute to planned obsolescence (though this is more about software than physical breakdown).
3. Environmental Regulations
Clinton’s administration focused on green policies, including promoting recycling and reducing waste, but there was no direct law requiring products to degrade within a set time.
4. International Influence (Right to Repair, E-Waste Laws)
Some European and state-level laws in the U.S. address right to repair and product longevity, but these came later and were not Clinton-era policies.
If you’re thinking of a specific law, do you recall any details about the industry or product type it applied to?
I like tights, they’re a little thicker but nobody really wears them except in winter. It’s warmer here in the S US. They also make metals lighter, thin metal prob the weight in shipping is less.
I buy second hand, organically grown and local from independent stores as much as possible, and I can't stand advertising.
And I feel like I live in a different world. It's hard to imagine this mindset.
I do as well. It seems like a form of insanity to do otherwise. I avoid Big Box stores like the plague. I feel anxiety even contemplating going in one.
Me too, Elizabeth. I'm lucky that I never have to go into a big box store.
I have my PhD in post-hole digging now haha, and some serious redneck engineering skills, which suits me fine given the direction we are heading in. I don’t want to be a part of it.
I am moving in that direction, too. I want to grow my own food. I lived off grid for a few years so I could learn more about self-reliance.
I just went and got £300 worth of food from the retail park bins in 2 days an equipped my flat with pots pans furniture book bedding cups, brushes cloths etc.
when I moved in I only owned a back pack worth of stuff.
next is collecting firewood from the woods so I can have a morning fire coffee .
Doesn't hurt to be prepared, Will. Good for you.
thanks.
I'm not preparing. I was forced out of society to be a street rat cos I'm a "trithbearer".
so I became a street pirate.
why they didn't know was.
I lived with hippies.
I'm king, of the street pirates.
no money and I'm gorging down steak, spaghetti meatballs and cake with my dogs, warmer than them, and loving it!!
Thank you for writing this with so many accessible comparisons to get our heads around the massive scale of this hot mess.
I first learned (and used to teach my kids about) our consumer-driven economy, planned obsolescence, not paying the true cost of what we buy, and so on, from an animation called "The Story of Stuff" I recommend to people a lot.
One of the best things we can learn and teach is the difference between want and need. I'm poor, so it's a little easier, but I try not to use more than "my [perceived] share," which is still too much (I'm American).
All I know is that nobody should be starving and unhoused while the impossibly rich profit like this.
Thank you for writing this. Years ago I heard, “Use things, love people” in a documentary about minimalism. It struck a chord and I knew I was going to have to change my life significantly.
Back in the days when bitcoin traded for ten cents I understood its potential and planned to buy some for $5000. But alas, life got in the way. Stress, health problems and other issues took priotity and I just did not have the energy to follow through.
Sometimes I ponder... they would be worth 5 billion today. What would I do with all that money? Maybe upgrade my home with a larger garden to grow fruit and veggies? Donate most of it? But to whom and for what? People would queue up and try to scam me out of all that cash. I still dont know after all these years what to do with so much money. Maybe it is good that I did not get into that but learned about life instead.
"The things you own, end up owning you"
- Tyler Durden, Fightclub.
A few years ago, realizing I was content with my simple life, I stopped pursuing anything for “more”. I fight hard to keep my life as-is. I don’t chase the next big thing, no longer want/expect more from my relationships, I figure out how to make do with my current income and don’t seek or want more money. I make a conscious decision everyday to enjoy my life with all its struggles (which I try to learn from), and find there are many more successes and very few failures. I focus on the things I love, for me: my partner, my family, my garden, healthy delicious food, movement/exercise. Consciously living this way has led me to be happy and free.
Beautiful!
One must sit back and realize that we are being marketed to death. Constant advertising, as it has crept into every corner and crevice of our lives, enables excessive materialism. People cannot get enough things to make them happy, fulfilled and satisfied.
It is my personal goal to avoid ALL advertising and I go out of my way to do so as I feel it is an invasion of my privacy. These marketing clowns have NO idea about what I might want or desire and it's none of their business. I do not want them to EVER know me.
There is always something new to buy. It's always the next big thing they gotta have. Because the last "next big thing" failed to deliver on its promises. As you age, hopefully you realize that you don't need all that crap you think you need. If any of the junk you previously purchased "did it for you", you wouldn't need to buy more until it became used up or worn out.
Marketing = consumerism = garage sales = now I can get all the junk I couldn't afford for a cheaper price = garage sales.
people who watch TV should be marked as selfish brainwashed delusional psychotic fascist dangerous lunatics.
I still have outfits from the 1980's.. including 3 dresses by Nichole Miller, and a suit jacket from Barneys. Things were just made so well, they never wear out. I rarely buy new clothes anymore.
On the other hand, I can't help but observe that 'The secret of happiness- is in developing the capacity to enjoy less. – Socrates' reeks of 'You'll own nothing and be happy'.. There is an extreme on either end to be avoided.
Good stuff, Roman!
So much peace, happiness, and health to be found in simplicity. May we all fill our lives with real things that build self-sufficiency and health. Most of it involves a bit of willpower and elbow grease—all of that is free. Just takes attention and cultivating productive patterns and habits. It is absolutely within reach.
MORONS
*when you say that
wjenypusay hat without specifying who you are taking about.commentors? consumers?
then it's a bit moronic.