The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010)
This is the story of companies who engineered their products to fail. This film criticizes the way manufacturers deliberately make short lasting products that continually have to be re-bought, increasing their profit.
Published 2010 (IMDB Rating 8.1)
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*Planned obsolescence*
Interesting movie about one of the pillars of our economy. Critical about
the concept of planned obsolescence, but is there an alternative for it
without radical change of our mentality and culture? I don’t know.
Great Video.
This is a story everyone needs to hear, think about and discuss with their families and neighbors.
designed to fail….and we have repairmen driving around using fossil fuels, constant re upping of goods on shelves that are disposable. factories making parts. u sing materials, causing pollution. plastic plastic plastic.. etc etc y up..environmentally friendly indeed…
it absolutely is unsustainable.. we have a finite amount of resources and they are being used incorrectly.. we have plastics that last for 20,000 years and they go into making a bottle of water that is used and discarded… put that in a house! use it on cars.. so stupid that they waste so much of our resources and we have no alternative.. you either buy something new or fix what you have.. but there are nothing but monopolies so you have no choices in getting a good product
39:04 – those CRTs last for ever, but we been brain washed to buy flat
panels, that are designed to fail promptly.
The World is big enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but will always be too
small to satisfy individual greed. Mahatma Ghandi.
This is completely true! My printer also blocked itself (because of that
chip) but then I found a hack on it online and made it work again ;)) .
dude inkjet printers are just basically stupid anyways, there shouldn’t be
any reason to print anything out really, if so send it to a print shop who
uses things besides inkjet printers and can print out quality. Also, people
would sue the print company if the printer did get ink all over the place
or just basically think it was a crappy printer. Talk about the complete
waste of money the injet cartridges are, they cost more than the entire
printer a lot of times. Also things like computers should be obsoleted
because would you like to be working on a mac or pc from the 80’s? I doubt
it. A lightbulb from 1900 sux compared to a led bulb today. The things
that should be got rid of are cars and airplanes because the fuel they use
and the death they cause.
I judge a Company/ Product, by how well it performs its function and how
long it can preform that function.
As for planned “Planned Obsolescence”: I see it more as failure due to low
cost production.
Can’t understand half of it because it’s in some foreign language.
And all the LED bulbs in UK are priced at an almost out of reach sum..for those wanting to cut back on power consumption..and most of the bulbs in IKEA are of screw in fitting and UK are all bayonet types.. so you have to then change all the fittings in the house.so in effect..you have to spend more cash to save…..LESS! outrageous for a so called Green economy? The massive swindle continues.!
I wonder why didn’t competition rule out the need for planned obsolesce? I
mean, didn’t companies back then always claim their stuff lasted the
longest and worked better than the competitor’s products? Why would a
crisis arise from that problem? Now I realize that companies even if they
don’t really have to. I mean, what kind of dumb company would invest time
and money spending on materials to built a lasting product when they can
hire chinese child laborers and use the cheapest crap available and just
say that new products that they make are simply better, even though they’re
the same shit.
So Londons’ idea was to fix an economic problem that was created by
government tinkering by having the government tinker with it. :-/
No WONDER he whispered about it.
its all because of GREED, without it there would be no need for a 1000hr
light bulb…but for a LIFE LONG bulb. This goes for other electronics and
items.
41 dayz. vs the one from 1901 = over 100 years. lol FUCK YOU
A nice bit of propaganda mostly, this is on a par with ‘Ralph Nader unsafe
at any speed’ Who are this so called ‘cartel’ surely another business man
would come in and offer a better product if they could. Most of this has to
do with politicians and bureaucrats defining standards, rather than
allowing the market to operate. All these so called environmental energy
bulbs have arisen from government mandates not the market. For instance
look at low level regulated markets such as the mobile phone- original cost
in 1950’s $5000 size of a brick with no battery life, today you can run
your life off one for a fraction of the cost, similarly a Bluetooth dongle
original costs $300 in the 1990s today less than $4 ( and that’s not
including inflation !!!!). Heavily regulated markets such as cars always
increase in value, since bureaucrats and politicians interfere determining
how much safety should be in there and how things should be tested. It is
politicians and bureaucrats messing up the market, with which standards
things should be held to.
I think the real truth that some may have overlooked goes like this. Things
are made to break, thats what keeps the money flowing, sad but true, and no
I dont agree with that plan,,but that is how its all made and planned. For
example any electronic device could be made to last way longer. Usually
when lets say for example your TV croaks. Its one component that has gone
bad or failed in it. But a circuit board can be made with several back ups.
Meaning if one transistor failed, there could be three others wired into
the board, with a microchip that would just switch it all over to use the
second transistor if the first failed. And any number of backups could be
added. But its not made that way, its made so when that one component fails
in your TV or other device, you simply throw it away and buy another, and
of course litter the world more. And it is rumored that if not already so,
some day a program may be placed in a microchip to force your electronic
device to fail after a certain time, like a timer. And you would either
throw it away, or have the repair man reset the circuit to restart the
timer all over again.
Marcos’ should have just bought a laser printer. Inkjets suck down one of
the most expensive liquids in the world even if it’s just sitting there not
printing anything. Laser toner cartridges can last years and it’s a
fraction of the price per page.
Start looking to Wall-E if you want to know what the future will be like.
I think your tinfoil hat is some seizes to small. Don’t wear those which
squeeze your brain.
Of course, now that everything is churned out by the People’s Lead & Puppy
Grindery, Western Civilization no longer really benefits so much from
planned obsolescence…
Funkyw4, The oldest light bulb has been burning since 1901, the light bulb
industry will be fine. The point of this documentary is to provide some
evidence and facts that our system is completely and utterly FLAWED and
cannot continue on the path that it is on currently.
My stove and fridge are more than 20 years old and they work perfectly.I
have new models as well, but they always break.
My stove and fridge are more than 20 years old and they work perfectly.I
have new models as well, but they always break.
I am a future economist and I wish we all could have longer lasting and
fully recyclable products. I see why it is no wonder people do not import
cheap efficient green energy solutions. Because it requires massive
reconstruction, it is a game changer for which big companies are not
willing to risk with. It makes all markets less dynamically inert. But it
gives population stability and reliability to counter for a great
depression and starvation. Even capitalists don’t have real interests in
this
They recited “the pledge of alliance” to a American conspiracy against
consumers
What, really?!
It was designed to FAIL.=-= STILL GOING ON TODAY. with everything.
Fascinating documentary a wake up call to all!
who is the person who talks during the documentary
Yes and no, this is an over simplification, the long lasting incandescent light had an even more horrendous power wastage than the 1000 hour bulb.
Didnt everyone already figure this out? like are you kidding? isnt it obvious that a car breaks so fast? god society must be fucking stupid, let them consume products and kill this world if they cant realize stuff like this
An interesting video that shows the evils of crony capitalism and the regulations that are designed to stifle innovation and competition. This video suggest that this is a symptom of the failure of capitalism, when in fact these are the symptoms of corruption due to lazy, self-interested, envious entities that fear competition. The worst part of this video is the suggestion that Marxism and communism are the answers. Freedom is the answer! Read Ayn Rand for a real alternative to crony capitalism and to see a paradigm that promotes individual happiness that translate to shared
wealth that is not compulsory.
this explains so much about our experience of modern life – why we have to keep making money to replace all these things that keep breaking.
It’s time for people to stop supporting corporations that use planned
obsolescence to force you to buy things over and over again when they could
last for much longer. Light bulbs are just a tiny drop in the pool of
corrupt corporations that buy politicians so they can continue to make
garbage and get bailed out when people stop buying their garbage that is
planned to fail after a certain amount of time. It’s wasteful, and it makes
people poorer. Computer manufactures especially Apple is guilty of this.
With their continuous update and upgrade bs. They could make a phone that
could have one standard architecture and just change cpu / gpu. We all
should demand more from our fellow humans.
greed and deception is whats destroying this world and you can thank the
elite for this, and it’s those same elite assholes that will profit from
the cleanup of all this.
You can tell who they are, because they use the word sustainability a lot.
sustainability is key phrase for Agenda 21, and you should know that the
same assholes that created agenda 21 also say that this planet cannot
sustain more than 1.5 billion people and they plan on being part of that
1.5 billion.
I enjoyed this video though there were a few issues that were not really
dealt with. Sometimes there is a good reason for replacing that old piece
of technology and in many cases it’s all about being productive. An old
computer that processes information 10X slower than the current model
becomes a waste of time to keep. Unless one feels that his time has no
value. A 1980s car that may run perfectly fine but consumes 3X the fuel of
a modern car not only is killing our planet with pollutants but is
consuming a limited supply of fossil fuel three times faster than a modern
replacement. Though I agree with the ideas in this video and I am not a big
fan of consumerism, I do see the need to update certain items in our
society with the goal of efficiency on as many levels as possible. Now
trying to decide exactly when to upgrade my car, computer, and gadgets is
the tricky part.
Osram was owned by Leopold Koppel a jew
DUH!
Just found out my hp laptop default cooling kicks in when 60C is reach, no
wonder my laptop overheats! Download a modded BIOS, simply adjust the
temperature to 50C solved my overheat issue.
How many people use electric every day? How many companies and signs and
headlights? How much light and images?
If everything uses many times the electricity needed, where does the
electricity come from?
Most of it comes from burning carbon. And the number of users and uses is
billions even as the rate of use outstrips the ability to find and get more
carbon since over 40 years ago and we have a very real problem with burning
too much carbon.
Sometimes you have to make a choice for efficiency when the alternative is
lights OUT decades sooner if you don’t. We can’t go back by simply wishing
or voting so.
Read Consumer Reports before you buy an item or at least see what things
you can buy refurbished since those items are repairable! The originals
cost MORE and there is the rub, people buy cheap and quality is made less
and less often because it is squeezed out, what sells shapes what gets made.
Buy cheap crap, get cheap crap. Eat fast food while you’re at it then
complain about that.
I’m quite happy with my 1973 John Deere lawn tractor thank you ;)
@36:47 …what the fukushima!
I can clearly agree with you on that.
“You see, without planned obsolescence these places wouldn’t exist. There
wouldn’t be any products. There wouldn’t be any industry. There wouldn’t be
any designers. […] All the jobs would go.” Instead of letting go half
your staff. Why not reduce work hours by half? Give everyone two or three
day work weeks. People get less money because they are only working 2-3
days a week. However, would also spend less money on replacements. People
would have more time to enjoy living.
what is the adress of the russian site?
36:43 Ironically enough , the battery of the photo camera is also almost
dead
This youtube program is no more aloud and taken away in the “free” Sweden “
Thank you for this ill be sure to share it