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Latest idea for a business: solve the “planned obsolesce” problem by creating an engineering company centered around ruthlessly dividing up each manufactured device into components that can be easily replaced. Efficiency might be a small sacrifice to pay to keep each component working for as long as possible.

I’m pretty sure there are good reasons for this not being an easy thing to achieve, but all that scrap going to landfill seems avoidable.

I remember they tried it with phones but it didn’t really get anywhere.

I obviously have no idea what it’s like to service appliances, but given the number of manufacturers and models and things that could go wrong, I’m wondering if there’s a more efficient economy here.