"They Fail To Perform The Only Function That I Need Them To": These 14 "Upgraded" Products Are Proof That Planned Obsolescence Is Ruining Our Society

Some things are built to last. For example, my parents person a fridge older than maine that inactive works similar a charm. But arsenic exertion advances, truthful does greed. Planned obsolescence, changeless "updates," and touchscreens connected virtually EVERYTHING person made modern surviving much of a nuisance than a convenience.

Here are conscionable a fewer examples of these modern "innovations" that radical are perfectly sick of:

Comments were pulled from this Reddit thread.

1. "Phones not having headphone jacks anymore... This is simply a downgrade."

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2. "Being incapable to region a artillery from your phone. You utilized to beryllium capable to conscionable alteration your artillery erstwhile your telephone started dying excessively fast, but present you can't. Thankfully, the European Union made a instrumentality to bring them back. We request laws to support these companies from downgrading everything."

3. "Physical buttons and knobs successful cars. Touchscreen controls suck."

4. "Gas cans. The caller ones suck truthful bad. They instrumentality everlastingly to determination and ever look to spill."

5. "Appliances. I bargain a caller fridge each 5 to 10 years, but my grandma's fridge volition past until the extremity of days."

6. "Dumb TVs are infinitely amended than astute TVs."

7. "Movie peculiar effects. Modern CGI conscionable looks crap."

8. "Remastered songs. I don't privation a caller cleaned-up version; I privation the 1 I listened to 10,000 times successful my youth."

9. "Museum exhibits. I tin spot pictures of worldly connected a surface astatine home. I came present to spot real-life stuff."

10. "Decor and architecture… I emotion a vintage piece. Please get escaped of the modern container look of caller apartments. I can’t instrumentality it."

11. "Running shoes. I admit that they usage foam that volition prevention my old-ass knees from imploding, but I'm not buying their fragile marathon shoes for $300 that past astir 1 marathon earlier you should astir apt regenerate them. Some of these footwear companies are jumping the shark. And the bittersweet happening is that radical are starting to deterioration them arsenic fashion, truthful it lone encourages them."

12. "Marketing. Soooo. Tired. Of. Advertisements."

13. "Communication. I don't privation to beryllium reachable each the time."

14. "(Gestures wildly toward everything)"

This database conscionable scratches the surface. What merchandise bash you deliberation has downgraded implicit time? Let america cognize successful the comments oregon done this anonymous form.

Note: Comments person been edited for length/clarity.