I complain about planned obsolescence all the time. In my opinion all of the routine maintenance for a vehicle should be simple enough that the driver can accomplish it in a driveway with the hand tools included with the car and spare parts you can buy in any auto shop. And if you’re willing to learn you should be able to perform an exchange of any part without removing the engine from the vehicle. With regular maintenance your vehicle should require no more than a twentieth its sticker price in parts and professional repairs every year. Unless it gets into an accident it should not fail in a way that repair costs more than its entire value (such as transmission failure, etc) until after it’s at least two or three decades old.
These criteria are not unreasonable, we’re just so used to buying their crap.
January 10, 2009
Why’s he say “nobody” when he and Girl are the only two there?
February 5, 2009
In case Boy shows up?
February 9, 2009
I complain about planned obsolescence all the time. In my opinion all of the routine maintenance for a vehicle should be simple enough that the driver can accomplish it in a driveway with the hand tools included with the car and spare parts you can buy in any auto shop. And if you’re willing to learn you should be able to perform an exchange of any part without removing the engine from the vehicle. With regular maintenance your vehicle should require no more than a twentieth its sticker price in parts and professional repairs every year. Unless it gets into an accident it should not fail in a way that repair costs more than its entire value (such as transmission failure, etc) until after it’s at least two or three decades old.
These criteria are not unreasonable, we’re just so used to buying their crap.
April 27, 2009
Why does everybody assume the portal and the toilet are connected somehow?
May 17, 2009
If it’s not a portal, then where do all the dead goldfish go?
… oh god, Sid Fishious! No one told me! I’m so sorry!
January 20, 2010
Ben is my favorite commenter.
February 9, 2011
They’re called bicycles,Tacoma.
February 17, 2017
Also, what Tacoma said should be applicable to computers too. Oh and houses. And the Economy. And our own bodies.