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| writing:repairability_in_solarpunk [2025/12/24 20:25] – [A change in ethos (incentive?)] JacobCoffinWrites | writing:repairability_in_solarpunk [2025/12/24 20:27] (current) – JacobCoffinWrites |
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| And that default feeds back into manufacture – to some extent, things are produced with the expectation, even requirement, that they'll be thrown away. This leads to a lot of clever shortcuts, cost-cutting, and even intentional sabotage under titles like planned obsolescence or the use of sub-par custom parts. | And that default feeds back into manufacture – to some extent, things are produced with the expectation, even requirement, that they'll be thrown away. This leads to a lot of clever shortcuts, cost-cutting, and even intentional sabotage under titles like planned obsolescence or the use of sub-par custom parts. |
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| Several people I talked to while looking for examples for this page recommended that I look into household stuff produced in the Soviet Union. So far at least I haven't really found many major differences between them and stuff produced by other countries in the same time period (that doesn't mean they don't have great examples, I'm just having trouble finding stuff and that may come down to a lack of experience with the stuff they produced and the fact that most of my searching is done in English). One thing I did find while following up on that was [[https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79R01141A002300080002-5.pdf|a report on soviet appliance manufacturing drafted by the CIA in 1962]]. I think the most interesting thing there was their analysis of the Soviets' goals. They described what they considered to be an ambitious goal at the time: that by 1965 there would be one refrigerator for every five urban households, one washing machine for every three urban households, and one sewing machine for every two households, both urban and rural. | Several people I talked to while looking for examples for this page recommended that I look into household stuff produced in the Soviet Union. So far at least I haven't really found many major differences between them and stuff produced by other countries in the same time period (that doesn't mean they don't have great examples, I'm just having trouble finding stuff and that may come down to the fact that most of my searching is done in English). One thing I did find while following up on that was [[https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79R01141A002300080002-5.pdf|a report on soviet appliance manufacturing drafted by the CIA in 1962]]. I think the most interesting thing there was their analysis of the Soviets' goals. They described what they considered to be an ambitious goal at the time: that by 1965 there would be one refrigerator for every five urban households, one washing machine for every three urban households, and one sewing machine for every two households, both urban and rural. |
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| And that struck me as a very different way of looking at the production of goods. | And that struck me as a very different way of looking at the production of goods. |
