Preventing waste and unnecessary spending is a good thing. Repairing your own stuff, and keeping it as an heirloom to pass on to your children, was the norm. Making things literally as hard to fix as possible is only a very recent concept. And a universally harmful one, too.

But... consumption! growth! You have to throw away things and buy new ones (preferably twice as many things as you threw away), otherwise the economy will take a nosedive!

Growth that is based on artificial consumption isn't real growth and isn't real economic output. It might make your stock numbers go up but it is bad in the long run if we delude ourselves into thinking that cannibalizing our own wealth in the form of trash is growth.

Adam Smith would disagree.

Funny!

How is 'right to repair' in any way related to a bear market?

“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Obvious Rage bait troll. Or a debt collector saying there is no recession because he is able to collect record levels in collections. Or If none of the above, self-repair is not populism, its prevention of e-waste and purposeful disposal of stuff that works and unnecessary production of stuff. Nature doesn't care about your market trends, it will head towards collapse if we keep producing. Or If you dont care because you are too old and won't live to see the climate change, too bad, we dont care if u make money either.

Next time, remember the /s flag.