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by hellow0rldz 1881 days ago
> Right to repair is not about being cheap, is about not caving in to the needs of an industry that doesn't know how to be profitable in a world without consumerism.

Beautiful.

Note that the industry does know how: it's called planned obsolescence. But the replacement rate is not good enough if people get to also repair their stuff.

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Also with Moore's law dying there is less and less need to upgrade the hardware, and the semiconductor industry will push more and more planned obsolescence.