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  5. Our whole economy is based on 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.