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The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) Pretajeter (original title) 53 min, Documentary, France, Spain Once upon a products were made to last. Then, at the beginning of the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by the following insight: A product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business (1928). Thus Planned Obsolescence was born. Shortly after, the first worldwide cartel was set up expressly to reduce the life span of the incandescent light bulb, a symbol for innovation and bright new ideas, and the first official victim of Planned Obsolescence. During the 1950s, with the birth of the consumer society, the concept took on a whole new meaning, as explained by flamboyant designer Brooks Stevens: Planned Obsolescence, the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is The growth society flourished, everybody had everything, the waste was piling up (preferably far away in illegal dumps in the Third World) until con
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