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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

Brooks Stevens
Years, People, Next Year
Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Brooks Stevens
Environmental, Sustainability, Economy
Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

Brooks Stevens
Moving On, Moved On, Lips

I believe in status symbols.

Brooks Stevens
Believe, Status Symbol, Symbols

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