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Re:Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles? by 8note on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:56PM (#26449913)
Mechanical design is all about designing failures.

You want the thing to break in a safe way where you can tell before hand that it's aging and needs replacement

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Re:Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles? by pmiller2 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:37PM (#26450226)
That’s not designing failure into a product. That’s designing a product so that when it does, it fails in specific ways. The latter is just good product design and engineering; the former is what’s arguably unethical.
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