The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

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The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

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Originally heard about this on the Planet Money podcast, and then I found this article.


The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/ ... conspiracy

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Re: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

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Not surprised. How about that bulb in the fire-station that has over 1,000,000 hours? We clearly could make better bulbs. ;)
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Re: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

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That thing is so dim its barely burning.
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