Thanks for your important post @kus-knee! Planned obsolescence is something you find nowadays in almost every product. The Iphone is another great example. They invented new special screws so that for a consumer its not possible to change the battery of the iphone - and as most iphone users probably know, after 1.5 years of usage, the battery lasts maybe half a day. But thats how our crazy economy keeps growing, with producing a huge amount of waste and keeping people buying new phones and other products again and again. But nowadays you can also find easy tutorials for example on youtube to fix these products easily by yourself. And another way is buying second hand clothes, which we do a lot. In China, there is even a huge Online Shop, just for buying second hand clothes - would be something to invent in Europe as well.. With this shop, you can find very stylish clothes, people maybe wore just once or twice. It's good to talk about these issues, as this kind of economy is definitely not sustainable at all!
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Wow what a great comment. It's so true that you can find out how to repair almost anything on YouTube etc... and also true that this economy is not sustainable. I will be writing on this topic again and I thank you for your visit and your input!