Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years?
nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 1 month agoWait til people hear that GE, Phillips, and others literally created a cartel to sabotage light bulb lifespan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
One of the originators of the idea of “planned obsolescence”. Even after the cartel got killed the manufacturers never extended the life of the lights into (to an extent) CFLs and then moreso the days of LEDs.