EU Parliament calls for longer lifetime for products
Wages have gone up and consumer goods have gone down in price and build quality. It's not feasible to have a repair business any more. Growing up, there were still loads of repair businesses around. You could fix anything.<p>If build quality and price go up, you can revert to an economy where you would fix your broken appliance once or twice before you replacing it.<p>But what's the incentive for the manufacturers?