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Originally Posted by Philscar
Incandescent light bulbs were designed to fail after x number of hours.See the package.
The glue used to seal the bulb dries at a known rate then cracks and lets air in to destroy the filament.
Florescent bulbs are now produced to do the same.
L.E.D. bulbs will probably go the same route when they figure out how to engineer the life of the bulb.
This is designed obsolescence and it is legal?
Phil
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Everything wears out or dies, eventually. Nothing lasts forever - including all of us who are living, as we too will die, someday. But you can sell more products by obsoleting whatever has been in use the longest, and government can hasten the process along by restricting production or prohibiting whatever product they wish to curtail or eliminate, at their will. That power is virtually unlimited.
It's not just "legal". The "new" bulbs have been legally
mandated to replace the older ones.
Translation (not that it's needed): Now you no longer have any choice. Your ability to decide and choose what bulbs you might want to buy has been taken away. That action was taken to benefit someone other than you. It was supposedly done to benefit society, for the good of us all...
