Re:Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philos...
by alexqgb on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @07:09PM
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GM, in the bad-old-days of planned obsolescence, was focused on screwing their customers.
The F-35 program is designed to extract as much money as humanly possible from the US Treasury.
There are pharmaceuticals designed the same way. In tandem with lobbyist-penned laws that (a) ban Medicare from negotiating drug prices and (b) ban them from refusing any treatment deemed "medically necessary" they are patent-protected pipelines for moving taxpayer dollars into offshore accounts that are (unsurprisingly) tax free.
The F-35 program is designed to extract as much money as humanly possible from the US Treasury.
There are pharmaceuticals designed the same way. In tandem with lobbyist-penned laws that (a) ban Medicare from negotiating drug prices and (b) ban them from refusing any treatment deemed "medically necessary" they are patent-protected pipelines for moving taxpayer dollars into offshore accounts that are (unsurprisingly) tax free.
The list goes on.