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Retired Boomer, Electrical Engineering dropout. Fixed computers for IBM anyway. 🖖 Science Fiction aficionado 🚀 Economics hobbyist specializing in Depreciation due to Planned Obsolescence. 11/16/24 day 0

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Yawn,

If YOU are impressed by Your psychological BS that is Your problem! The Laws of Physics do not care! About economics or economists! I have spent decades fixing machines Capital and Consumer technology. Money has to be spent repairing or replacing both of them.

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02.03.2026 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He should know disgusting pretty well.

02.03.2026 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Operation Epstein Furious Distraction

02.03.2026 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Operation Epstein Furious Distraction

02.03.2026 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aw man! Everybody is supposed to respond to bullying the way I want them to.

This just isn't Fair!

02.03.2026 12:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Operation Epstein Furious Distraction

02.03.2026 12:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA | Tonight Special | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive 1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA | Tonight Special | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

1964
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How much has the Planet been Screwed Up by NOW?!?!?

02.03.2026 12:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How about rational attacks with verifiable facts & irrefutable logic?

Get blocked by PhD economists?🤑

The Depreciation of automobiles in the United States has to amount to hundred$ of billion$ of dollar$. Our brilliant economists must dodge talking abt it since 1980, before Millennials were born.

02.03.2026 12:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are stuck here playing an Economic Power Game. Technology changes the available tactics. Of course lying & information hiding have always been available.

We must wonder why economists haven't been talking about Planned Obsolescence when Smith & Marx never got to observe the phenomenon.

Liars?

02.03.2026 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is there a Demand for products designed to become obsolete or is it simply rip of anybody dumb enough to fall for the BullShit?

Ask a PhD economist to explain what a "Cam Shaft" is?

Did the Ford Model-T have one?

Can we shoot economists who don't know the answers? 🤣

02.03.2026 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How is Planned Obsolescence relevant to Free Markets?

02.03.2026 11:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy Pockets - Chevan Nanayakkara This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get ta...

What is the story with English speaking countries?

We could have had mandatory accounting in schools since 1950.

Adam Smith used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times in Wealth of Nations. He wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times.

Marx wrote about Depreciation! asac

chevan.info/depreciation...

02.03.2026 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy Pockets - Chevan Nanayakkara This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get ta...

What is the story with English speaking countries?

We could have had mandatory accounting in schools since 1950.

Adam Smith used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times in Wealth of Nations. He wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times.

Marx wrote about Depreciation! asac

chevan.info/depreciation...

02.03.2026 11:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Make Idiots Great Again?

When were they?

02.03.2026 11:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am pretty sure that I watched the first television broadcast but I do not recall when that was exactly.

02.03.2026 10:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Why Everything You Buy Is Garbage (The 'Made in USA' Lie)
YouTube video by Industrial Decay Why Everything You Buy Is Garbage (The 'Made in USA' Lie)

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02.03.2026 10:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trumpression!

One obvious difference about the Great Depression and now is that it was not preceded by 70 years of planned obsolescence in automobiles. That would have been the American Civil War.

No Cars! 🚔 😆

The NET Domestic Product has slipped the minds of the entire Economics Profession! 🤑

02.03.2026 07:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI is a delusional description.

It is SIS, Simulated Idiot Savant!

Very useful but with peculiar limitations.

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles. An AI does not have a career, ego or reputation to maintain.

Humans will Lie!

02.03.2026 07:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything Trump does and says just emphasizes the Air Force's "Dereliction of Duty".

Can't they figure out what to do about a "Domestic Enemy"?

I have been fantasizing about an A-10 Warthog flying over a golf ⛳ course for months. Deliberately miss on the first pass.

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02.03.2026 07:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There wasn't so much electronic garbage in cars back in the 90s causing unnecessary complications and expenses.

Of course economists still have not figured out planned obsolescence or they are pretending that it is irrelevant.

Who gives a damn about cars?

1939 technology: P-38 ⚡️400+ mph

02.03.2026 06:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who voted for that idiot?

Does anyone believe that Trump can figure out the consequences of his actions when other people may change their behavior as a result?

Can Trump play chess worth a damn?

He is just an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who cannot accept that other players are smarter.

02.03.2026 06:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars. Can economists figure out how The ECONOMY does or should work?

Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile.
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We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto!
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02.03.2026 06:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars. Can economists figure out how The ECONOMY does or should work?

Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile.
aicon

We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto!
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02.03.2026 06:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars. Can economists figure out how The ECONOMY does or should work?

Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile.
aicon

We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto!
bsky.app/profile/umbr...

02.03.2026 06:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars. Can economists figure out how The ECONOMY does or should work?

Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile.
aicon

We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto!
bsky.app/profile/umbr...

02.03.2026 06:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars. Can economists figure out how The ECONOMY does or should work?

Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile.
aicon

We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto!
bsky.app/profile/umbr...

02.03.2026 06:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask two or more AIs when PhD economists should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars. Can economists figure out how The ECONOMY does or should work?

Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile.
aicon

We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto!
bsky.app/profile/umbr...

02.03.2026 06:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, methane from the tundra is irrelevant.

02.03.2026 06:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How long has it been since P-38s & P-51s were flying over Europe at 400 mph?

Shouldn't all Western economists have figured out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles by now?

What does the LSE say about PO and all of the Car Depreciation since 1950?

Is GDP Grossly Distorted Propaganda?

1939 P-38⚡️

02.03.2026 06:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA | Tonight Special | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive 1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA | Tonight Special | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

How about eliminating Planned Obsolescence?

Of course I am not sure if economists have figured out Planned Obsolescence.

1964
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGl...

02.03.2026 06:09 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0