People everywhere are today disobeying the law of obsolescence. They are using their old
cars, their old tires, their old radios and their old clothing much longer than statisticians had
expected on the basis of earlier experience.
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I propose that when a person continues to posses and use old clothing, automobiles and buildings, after they have passed their obsolescence date, as determined at the time they were created, he should be taxed for such continued use of what is legally “dead.”
Bernard London wrote Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence in 1932:
Marx is spinning so fast in his grave that if we hooked a generator up to him we would never have to use fossil fuels again.