"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."
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Source: Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.
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