I know EU has the Right to Repair initiative and that’s a step to the right direction. Still I’m left to wonder, how did we end up in a situation where it’s often cheaper to just buy a new item than fix the old?
What can individuals, communities, countries and organizations do to encourage people to repair rather than replace with a new?
China fixed this. Or maybe America fixed it for China. Idk. It’s all way above my paygrade. All I know is, you go to any mall, there will be a kid there aged 12-18 willing to fix anything you got for the price of the cab you took to get there.