Light Bulb Conspiracy

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In the last years the quality of the products created by the human beings has decreased, because of the methods they use in the economy. Planned obsolescence is a strategy used by the big companies to keep the costumers buying their products in order to increase their financial power. A good example of this is the Light Bulb Conspiracy that shows how the light bulb makers created obsolete products. The light bulbs passed from 25000 usage hours to 1000 hours, because they wanted to have a constant consumerism. This is the reason why some objects that we own stop working in few months of usage.

The United States created this strategy because they wanted to get out of the depression that they were living, because of the bad usage of their economy. They believed that they were able to create more employment because more products were needed to be produced due to their bad quality. But the only thing that they reached was a dependence on this products, so many people were affected; especially the lower class. Also, the third world countries were used as trashes so countries could throw away their “obsolete” products.