Does cheap mean disposable?
January 30th, 2007 by Dawn Ahukanna
Reading DVD player for £9 at ASDA in thisislondon.co.uk, this quote
“A DVD player is to go on sale for just £9, demonstrating that gadgets have now become as disposable as an old shirt and cheaper than a night at the cinema.” caught my attention.
Is it part of the human condition that anything that does not cost us much effort to acquire is of no value?
Just because the DVD player costs less than the media it is playing, does not mean that if it develops a fault, it should be thrown away.
In these days of “Global Warming”, wars being fought for natural resources and the ever increasing human population, shouldn’t we, as consumers, be more focused on the real cost of products as opposed to the price tag?
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