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- Embed this noticeI started calling this shit out back in the 70s.
"Oh Dagnar, you old fool! There were no vidya games back then!"
Right, but the concept of churn did, and it started in consumer products like toasters and fast food crap. Churn out shitty products that decay at an accelerated rate (planned obsolescence) to pump up annual, semi-annual, then finally quarterly sales rates. By pinning profits to that sales rate and detaching it from product quality, they cheapened and ruined everything. We saw it music, movies, appliances, cars, houses, you name it. Over time, the churn mindset infected everything and the landfills got fuller.