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i am sick of being treated as eccentric for not wanting to buy things i can't repair, legally or due to how it was manufactured, materially.
i'm tired of adhesives, rivets, proprietary fasteners, vinyl-wrapped particle board, flimsy plastics, fast fashion's razor thin synthetics. everything is always a piece of shit, and with prices ballooning, it no longer fits the ecologically destructive "just buy a new one" value proposition anymore.
i guess there is only so much capital can do to make something difficult to repair before they have to make it law that you can't fix broken shit.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is this mantra that has been around since i was very short, but without REPAIR, wtf is the point.
TBF I think repair is included in reuse, it's just that the propaganda machine co-opted the phrase and put all the focus on recycle
They did. They monetized the rot and we have like 3 decades of procrastination to show for it.
Yeah but you see…you’re violating poor porky’s PROPERTY RIGHTS if you repair! He wants you to buy another one and besides, it’s not like you actually own any….I mean, you have the right to tell porky how he can make his products! That’ll hurt the economy!”
At a certain point, it will be a more worthwhile proposition to detach from the profit-driven economy at large and just make things independently from open-soutce blueprints.
There will come a time when we end up boycotting everything.
This is the running theme of most of Cory Doctorow's fiction
Already getting there. It's hard.
i feel like so much of my long term strategic planning is about these structural decisions to avoid buying cheap crap. learning how to keep a car running, basic woodworking and simple carpentry, sewing, finding or creating space to repair or fabricate things.
at one point i was in a living situation where i had room for a "project" space. like little art projects, but easily doubled as a repair/construction area. had a shitty opd laptop with mint on it for research, tables, pegboard for tools, paints, bright table lamp, high magnification lenses, xacto knives, seeing machine, etc.
and it was such a game changer in dealing with broken shit. like i could just plop something there and deal with it when i had capacity, and it didn't interfere with my chill or eating or cooking space.
all I can think about now that im between places is getting something like that set up again, both as a creative outlet, but really just to handle shit that comes up in a more organized way.
Oh yeah totally.
I'm gearing up to buy a house in the next 6 months and it will need to have plenty of storage/atelier space.
Changed two phone batteries recently. One took a few seconds. The other one with adhesives took an hour of labor just to remove and reapply the adhesive, and I still need to redo it. They made it as shitty as possible to repair. Fuck Samsung.