Asking for DUers opinion on "Right to Repair" Do you think it is an important issue? [View all]
I think it could be.
I ran into a "right to repair" situation yesterday.
I was attempting to deploy my little space heater in my office, when the little "foot thingy" (I don't know what else to call it) that switches the whole thing off if it gets tipped over, got snagged and broke off. A little, simple, plastic part broke off, and now the whole thing is a piece of junk, because there is no way to repair it.
The amount of WASTE we have in our economy is one of the reasons we are driving this planet into a ditch. Things are made to be cheap, and not worth repairing, just buy a new one and throw the old thing away.
It's just horrible.
We can afford flat screen TVs, but we can't afford housing, medical care, retirement, or even decent vacations.
We have an entire economy structured around selling cheap goods for the benefit of the 10% who live off their earnings on the stock market.
Would some serious attention to the idea of "right to repair" start to turn this ship of fools around?
Or is it a lost cause?
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