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Retired Boomer, Electrical Engineering dropout. Fixed computers for IBM anyway.
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Economics hobbyist specializing in Depreciation due to Planned Obsolescence. 11/16/24 day 0
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umbrarchist.bsky.social
Yeah, PhD economists seem to have a problem with Demand Side Depreciation.
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
"fact-based economics" ???

Do Automobiles purchased by consumers wear out and therefore Depreciate? Where is the Data on the annual depreciation of consumer cars for the last 30 years?

There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the US in 1995.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Yeah, just another day on the job. 😔
The Conan Saga by Robert E. Howard in character life order. Howard wrote in the 1930s, in Texas. If any of it seems racist or sexist don't get all shocked. Links to US and Australian Gutenberg sites. 01. Gods of the North https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42664 02. God in the Bowl http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1501131h.html 03. The Tower of the Elephant http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html 04. Rogues in the House http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600781h.html 05. Shadows in the Moonlight https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42188 06. Black Colossus http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600931h.html 07. Queen of the Black Coast https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42183 08. Slithering Shadow http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601051h.html 09. A Witch Shall Be Born https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42227 10. The Devil in Iron https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42209 11. The People of the Black Circle https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42259 12. Shadows in Zamboula https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42196 13. The Pool of the Black One http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600951h.html 14. Beyond the Black River https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42254 15. Red Nails https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32759 16. Jewels of Gwahlur https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42236 17. The Phoenix on the Sword http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600811h.html 18. The Scarlet Citadel http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600821h.html 19. The Hour of the Dragon https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42243 20. The Black Stranger https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1501121h.html
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
This has to violate some cosmic science fiction law.
The planet may implode.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
©1974
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
How about everybody understanding 700 year old double entry accounting and being able to do it with their pocket supercomputers.

When do economists suggest that? Accounting could have been mandatory since 1950.

chevan.info/depreciation...
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂 😆 😂 And I practice! 🤣
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
How many Automobiles have been manufactured and trashed since WWII?

What have economists said about the depreciation of all of those machines?

Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. No cars back then!

Could Planned Obsolescence be high-tech wage slavery?
What is NET DP?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Is depreciation a Law of Economics resulting from the Laws of Physics?

What have economists been saying about the annual depreciation of automobiles since whenever they figured out Planned Obsolescence?

Have Economists figured out Planned Obsolescence since 1980?

What is the NET Domestic Product?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Trumpression!

One obvious difference about the Great Depression from now is that it was not preceded by 70 yrs of planned obsolescence in automobiles.

That would have been the American Civil War.

No Cars! 🚔 😆

The NET Domestic Product has slipped the minds of the entire Economics Profession! 🤑
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Notice that Economists with PhDs cannot tell the American people what they lose on the depreciation of automobiles every year.

What is Planned Obsolescence?

What is the NET Domestic Product?

Can Economists do algebra?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
This is why I am having a little war with the Economics Profession.

They say nothing about the depreciation of the junk, including automobiles. Running a planet on defective Algebra makes so much sense.

I have been blocked by a bunch of PhD economists. Some Marxists don't like me either.
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Automobiles purchased by consumers are not regarded as Capital. They are consumer goods, like bananas.
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
LOL

I worked for IBM but I noticed that there were things that I was not being told.

Get an Economics textbook and look up the Net Domestic Product. Then try to find the annual depreciation of automobiles purchased by consumers since 1980.

What experts are required for such simple concepts?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
It is very curious what you can learn about History and Economics from some science fiction stories. Technology too!

A time travel story creating an alternate history of Russia bringing 20th Century ideas about economics to the 17th Century.
Normality is so boring! 😆
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
GDP is Grossly Distorted Propaganda

What is the NET Domestic Product?
What has happened to the depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods, like Automobiles, since Sputnik?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
©1974
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
But cannot do Algebra.
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital but there were no automobiles to depreciate back then. When did he predict the first 400 mph airplane?

The depreciation of hundreds of millions of Automobiles are irrelevant to economists.

GDP, GDP, rah, rah, RAH! 🤣
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂 😆 😂 And I practice! 🤣
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Is ignoring the depreciation of durable consumer goods while not discussing planned obsolescence part of Western Culture?

See the Net Domestic Product equation.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
What did John Maynard Keynes say abt the Planned Obsolescence of automobiles? He never saw a television commercial for an automobile.

What if Planned Obsolescence is nothing but a hi-technology form of slavery? Where is the data on the annual depreciation of cars? What is the NET Domestic Product?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
The road to serfdom is paved with BMWs.

And iPhones. 🤑

Hayek lived long enough to see Planned Obsolescence but I am not aware of his ever saying anything about it.

The Waste Makers (1960) by Vance Packard

What is Gen-Z supposed to do at this point? Decades of Depreciation ignored.

NDP vs GDP
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
How about mandatory accounting in the schools? That could have been done since 1950. What would the effect be by now?

Not so many people dumb enough to take out sub-prime loans? Not so many buying over-priced cars to be repossessed?

How about economists who can figure out Planned Obsolescence?
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Keynes never saw a TV commercial for an automobile, but he probably heard of Rolls Royce Merlin engines manufactured by Packard.

We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto!

Planned Obsolescence is good for GDP. We must not have those 15-hour workweeks. Going into debt for junk turns the money wheel.
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Economists cannot do Algebra!

What is the NET Domestic Product? Where is the data on the annual depreciation of automobiles owned by American consumers since 1980? Shouldn't Economists have figured out Planned Obsolescence by then, a Decade after Apollo 11?

Does Gen-Z care about the Moon Landing?
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
It is half-a-century after the Moon Landing. When have you heard an economist talk about the Planned Obsolescence of Automobiles?

How much do American consumers lose on the depreciation of automobiles each year?

What is the NET Domestic Product?
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM