Spend Don't Mend

New perils are about to befall the American Way, in the form of proposed bipartisan legislation that will impiously and blasphemously seek to countermand the eternal law of built-in obsolescence. Corporate citizens are squealing with righteous indignation at the threat that they may be required to provide their product consumption resources with the equipment and knowledge necessary to repair cars, phones or wheelchairs at, if you please, fair and reasonable terms and costs. Quite aside from the intellectual theft and loss of business motivation should people start using things for longer instead of consigning them to landfill, the risk to the environment might be so severe as to make corporate America play concerned about the environment. In such extreme territory, it is terrifying to think where the matter might end. Imagine the consequences if they the people took it into their heads to make a sagging quarter-millennial constitution fit for purpose, rather than accepting its de facto abolition in favour of the currently imminent imperium of the infoslop.