Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff
by balding_n_tired on Friday November 13, 2009 @02:14PM
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1. Sigmund Freud lectured in the US in 1909, when Bernays was a teenager.
2. Planned obsolence: I see 40-year old cars and pickup trucks here and there. On the one hand, a lot of cars could be run longer before replacement. On the other hand, an older car is vastly less safe, without airbags or crumple zones, and the older car (ignoring manufacturing costs) pollutes more. And how many on HN work on old computers? America was settled during a period when technology rapidly advanced and obsolescence did not have to be planned.
2. Planned obsolence: I see 40-year old cars and pickup trucks here and there. On the one hand, a lot of cars could be run longer before replacement. On the other hand, an older car is vastly less safe, without airbags or crumple zones, and the older car (ignoring manufacturing costs) pollutes more. And how many on HN work on old computers? America was settled during a period when technology rapidly advanced and obsolescence did not have to be planned.