Time to end the great gadget con
Camilla Cavendish
Financial Times
If Joseph Schumpeter walked into my kitchen, I’m sure he’d be demanding “creative destruction” to sweep away the “poor design, built-in obsolescence and sheer wastefulness of today’s appliances”, says Camilla Cavendish. According to the UN, we throw out 50 million tonnes of electrical waste each year. The worst gadgets are those which “sting us” on subsequent use, such as printers, which won’t work without expensive consumables. Printer ink can be more expensive
