Tyson Victor Weems
1 min readMay 13, 2020

Planned obsolescence seems like an example of market failure. It’s clearly more profitable to design machines in ways allowing for long-term maintenance. Traditionally this is where governments can step in to incentivize something to support public benefit. Perhaps there could be tax incentives for designing machines to last or be fixable and recyclable. That would likely first require changing the tax code so big corporations pay revenue taxes as well as for their products’ end-of-life pollution.

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Tyson Victor Weems
Tyson Victor Weems

Written by Tyson Victor Weems

Non-profit founder, musician, coach, X-C skier/CrossFitter, artist, concerned citizen, mammal (not necessarily in that order). See https://weems.works for more.

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