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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-06-02 06:41 pm

[ SECRET POST #3803 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3803 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dramatical Murder]


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[Agents of SHIELD]


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[NCIS/Bull (Michael Weatherly)]


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Re: Controversial Opinions

(Anonymous) 2017-06-03 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Except capitalism values profit over advancement and needlessly complicates itself.

It's frequently more profitable to pour investment money into a new ad campaign than to improve the product. Betamax was objectively technologically better than VHS, but the porn industry chose VHS and soon better tech didn't matter because nobody was using it.

Companies design products to have a lifespan approx. the same length as it takes them to release a new version or the amount of time most people are willing to buy a new item. It's called planned obsolescence, because most middle class households don't need two washing machines, or two dishwashers, or more than two cars. So you make them break, otherwise you're not selling another product to that family until you do.

Smoking mainly continues because there's so much money tied up in it, from farms to retail locations, that to put any real effort into protecting people's health would be devastating to the economy.

Ironically, the space program was one of the more profitable ones, but because public opinion was that it couldn't be it became impossible to sustain because it didn't put any of those profits into advertising to change public opinion.