peter_unk

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How can I find out which products have not had "planned obsolescence". For example, I bought a microwave oven which stopped heating just after the two year warranty. Everything else is working fine and otherwise is perfectly good. Even so the cost of a service repair is more than a new product. A new product is probably also fitted with planned obsolescence, a micro chip which is counting time, or some thing like the number of prints in a printer, for example. Originally the idea was that a consumer could choose a newer, or more developed, product, but now it is a forced choice by the manufacturer. I want to know which products are fitted with planned obsolescence so that I have a real choice.

How does it affect any current share holding?

Why do you continue to do it?

Sitting on a train with your feet up on the seat across. Someone wearing a uniform is heading down the carriage aisle, and so you quickly move your feet off the seat. When the person has passed you put your feet back on the seat. You have moved your feet in response to the authority and belie your understanding that it is wrong to put your feet up on the seat. Why do you continue to do it?

If you are thinking you like to do it, feel free to do it, or see it as nothing wrong, your reaction tells it is false thinking. If you think it is because of the authority, or a fear, you are kidding your self you are not responsible for your actions. The question is, why live a way of life where your actions are not what you think is right? You didn't think they were right and you corrected yourself. Why wait for an authority figure to do this? If you say you don't agree with this and you are free to do what you like, why did you react? It certainly isn't respect for authority to put your dirty shoes up on a seat where someone wants to sit. It certainly isn't a challenge to authority to take your dirty feet off the seats. There is no rebellious statement in the reaction at all. Think about it. You are living a life of reactionary false thinking. Why don't you think about your actions and live rightly, not having to react to authority, one way or another?

Say we are sitting together talking about this. Not me giving answers or me explaining something, but the both of us together exploring the questions without knowing any answers. There wouldn't be any advice or conclusions we would settle on. We might have knowledge about some things, and this is part of what we are talking about, but the knowledge is not what we are going to settle for. It is an inquiry. In the inquiry there is no point in saying this is what I could, or should be doing. It is quite pointless to think about this inquiry personally. We are just talking together, and I think empathy is exactly what it is about. I am not asserting anything, not controlling, not leading, not being an authority, I am sharing the empathy. This opens the mind. A mind not stuck in knowledge, not stuck in authority, is inquiring. There is a lot to think about.

Or are they from the past, from memory, from my beliefs? Does this affect the way I see the present, and how I see myself?