"A technician can make a diagnosis but it costs 15 euros plus VAT." "It has become difficult to find parts for this." "It's not worth repairing." "Repair will cost 110-120 euros." "Printers cost as low as 39 euros." "I would advise you buy a new printer." "It's best to buy a new one." "We live in a society dominated by a growth economy whose logic is not creating because we need things, but just for the sake of it." "Man decided to shorten a products lifespan to 1000 hours." "Christmas Eve 1924 was a special day." "In a backroom in Geneve, suit wearing men met to create a secret plan." "They established the first worldwide cartel." "Their goal was to control the production of lightbulbs and to divide the world market between them." "The cartel was called Phoebus." "They would change the patents, control the production and above all control consumption." "It is better for the companies that bulbs must be changed more often." "Long lasting lights are an economic disadvantage." "Phoebus decided to limit the lifespan of a light bulb to 1000 hours." "In 1925 they appointed a group called "The 1000 Hour Life Committee", that would technically reduce the time an incandescent lamp could burn." "Here we have a cartel document:" "One measure was to set up a stand with many shelves to which different types of lightbulbs were connected to so that the company Osram was able to register how long they lasted." "Here we have a list of fines from 1929." "It shows how many Swiss Francs companies had to pay for example, here when the life of a bulb was about 1500 hours." "Officially, Phoebus never existed, although it's tracks have always been there." "The strategy has been to constantly change names." "They used the name "The International Energy Cartel" and others." "The point is that this idea as an institution still exists." "Growth Society's logic is not only to grow to meet demand but to grow for the sake of growth;" "unbounded growth in production that is justified through the boundless growth in consumption." "The three crucial factors are advertising, planned obsolescence and credit." "Anyone who thinks that infinite growth is consistent with a finite planet is either crazy, or an economist." "The problem is that now we've all become economists." "With this Growth Society we are sitting in a racing car that no longer has a driver, is running at full speed and will end up crashing into a wall or driving off a cliff." "I have found the chip called an EEPROM, which stores a preset number of prints." "When the user reaches this preset number of prints, the printer locks up." "I bought this DDR-fridge in 1985." "It is 24 years old." "The light bulb is the same age, I have never changed it." "It is 25 years old." "In 1981 when the East Germans presented the bulb at a fair in Hanover, our colleagues in the West said, "You will make yourselves unemployed."" "East Germans engineers replied, "On the contrary."" ""By saving resources and not wasting tungsten we will keep our jobs.""" "The transport sector would pay the actual costs of shipping, not to mention the fact that oil is unrenewable, if the current price was multiplied by 20 or 30." "'Environment' is generally linked to saving, reduction, zero waste, etc." "But nature doesn't save anything, for example when a cherry tree blossoms." "Nature produces no waste, only nutrients." "Imagine a sofa or a chair with a fabric like this;" "it's decorations are so toxic that it must be handled as hazardous waste." "Now we select edible materials." "You should be able to have this with your muesli." "In a waste-based society, products will cause problems." "But if manufactureres use nutrients, the products can become something new." "A true revolution requires a cultural change, a paradigm shift and a change in mentality." "Anti-Growth is a provocative slogan that will break the way of thought that considers infine growth to be possible and sustainable." "It marks the necessity to change our logic." "The main message of anti-growth is to reduce our environmental footprint, our waste, overproduction and overconsumption." "By reducing production and consumption we get more free time to develop other forms of wealth that can't be exhausted, for example friendship and learning." "If happiness was dependent on our consumption level, we should be 100% content." "We consume 26 times more than in Marx's time." "But all studies show that people are not 20 times happier." "For happiness is always subjective." "To return to a society of sustainable development is not to go back to the Stone Age, but to the 1960s." "It is far from the Stone Age." "Anti-Growth Society meets Ghandi's vision:" ""The world is big enough to satisfy everyone's needs,"" ""but will always be too small to satisfy individual greed.""