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Planned obsolescence is horrible, no doubt. It's what keeps consumers in debt and military spending higher than it should be, all while hurting the planet. The landline in my grandmother's house is 40 years old and still works. We keep it for when the power goes out, which happens more times than we'd like in California.

One of the problems with repairability in the US is cost of labor. It's why there's a casual attitude among many South Asian families to take it back to India etc and have someone fix it.

On a larger scale, it's what they do with Toyotas - buy well built but heavily used Toyotas in the west, and ship them to East Asia and Africa where they can be repaired and last another 100,000 miles.

I think there's a YC company working on a recyclables marketplace.