Post about Lightbulb and planned obsolescence

This movie that we watched in class primary talk about the planned obsolescence and how the people and companies are trying to "obligate" consumers to buy more things unnecessarily with planned obsolescence. The first part they started talking about a celebration of the 100 years of a lightbulb, this was a lightbulb that still served after 100 years and the producers started taking the years for things to serve so people have to buy more because they do not serve any more so they are seen obligated to do it. Onle the early 1900s all the things were made to last, but that was affecting the people who sell stuff because things were lasting for so long and people stop buying things for a while, so then in the 1920s was when planned obsolescence started. The planned obsolescence consisted of putting a limited time of serve to things for example the companies can only made things that lasted for 20 years and they could not last more.

The Phoebus cartel was created in 1924 this cartel was formed by the lightbulb manufacturers and the purpose was to standarize the lightbulbs. They noticed when they created this cartel that the lightbulblife expectancy was more than 2000 hours and two years later they put it down to a life expectancy of 1500 hours. This Phoebus cartel was disbanded in 1939 but still it remains a lot of influence of this cartel in the West. We could see in this a movie a really specific case of planned obsolescence and it was when Marco who is a guy that needs to arrange his printer is told in various places that he has to buy a new one, and he discovers he can just fix it by changing a piece of the printer.