Ending over mending: planned obsolescence is killing the planet | Technology | The Guardian
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In his novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes of a society in which recorded voices subliminally prepare babies for their future role as consumers.
“I do love flying, I do love having new clothes,” they whisper. “But old clothes are beastly. We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending. Ending is better than mending.”
Huxley depicts a dystopia. But the slogans he describes might equally apply to common products today.