[Waterluvian]

We absolutely need consumer protection laws for this.

The problem is that capitalism doesn't permit companies to simply succeed by being profitable. They must grow too. So the people who run the business are ultimately forced to squeeze every conceivable revenue stream from their products. The March towards forced online IoT and printer ink cartridge obsolescence models for everything is inevitable.

Appliances used to last forever and you'd get a guy to come fix them. My dad gifted me a 40 year old jigsaw that works better than any new jigsaw I've used.

[ficklepickle]

Infinite expansion with finite resources. What could go wrong?

[archi42]

"We'll have it figured out before we run out of resources" - every generation, forever

[pbhjpbhj]

And even intelligent people respond to that problem with, well we've always managed to have unbridled growth before, as if there are no absolute physical limits in the World.

[ric2b]

How does Capitalism force capitalism to grow? There's nothing wrong with a stable company that distributes it's profits via dividends.