Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy
It seems we're supposed to mourn the last gasp of The Landfill Economy. Perhaps we should celebrate its demise.
Globalization's great gift wasn't low prices--it was the collapse of durability, transforming the global economy into a Landfill Economy of shoddy products made of low-cost components guaranteed to fail, poor quality control, planned obsolescence and accelerated product cycles--all hyper-profitable, all to the detriment of consumers and the planet.
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