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RE: The Old Dog Discusses: Planned Obsolescence Exposes The Dark Side of Product Design!

in #evil7 years ago (edited)

Thanks so much! Are you working as a designer in industry? I got a degree in glass design, and then worked in a glassfactory. But glass industry has ceased over the years, and I had to find a new job. Some artists are doing it as an entrepreneur, but starving as well! There is no market of art glass here! No more glass, this is so expensive to maintain a glass melting furnace. And my father, who was a builder of many glass furnaces, died in 2013.
By the way, glass! Breaks easily, but this is not planned obsolescence, but due to natural property of glass.

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I worked in the field in Toronto for many years mostly designing custom furniture and store interiors. When I moved to a small town in Switzerland 22 years ago there was no work for me and I started my property maintenance/facility services business (that's a fancy way of saying cleaning business). This has given me a lot of freedom and I still love design!

That's great! Cleaning? Sometimes I go cleaning renovated and new houses and apartments. Not too much money but fun. And a great training to get slimmer (Lol)