The fundamental theme or subject that the lightbulb conspiracy talks about or even shows is planned obsolecense. We live in a society where we do not create items because we need them, but because we want somene thing new. Since about 1920 we live in a world full of planned obsolecense. In this case the lightbulb conspiracy was the one that is demonstrating the planed obsolecense. The lasting lights are a disadvantage for economy. Therefore they create lightbulbs that last less hours in order to generate more waste and make people buy more and more lightbulbs.
There are lightbulbs that can reach a duration of one hundred thousand hours, but these lightbulbs never reach the market. In the time of this conspiracy there was also the great depression. The strategy of the lightbulb selling was to make the people want the product. For example go shopping or start consuming are great ways to start this economy. An this goes by the hand with planned obsolesence, for example if a battery dies you need to buy a new ipod instead. All things are designed not to work after a certain period of time.
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