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I bought my car in 2010. I SPECIFICALLY wanted a Japanese car MADE IN Japan because they are known for building products that LAST and that DON’T FAIL… 14 years later I STILL drive the same Honda Hybrid Insight on the SAME Hybrid batteries and I have had ZERO problems with this car!!! The only thing I had to do was change the tires every couple of years and of course replace the fluids and filters, but nothing ever failed in it. Furthermore, they say that you need to replace your Hybrid Lithium batters after 10 years… 14 years later they still are working and I STILL get 45mpg!!! THIS IS WHAT’S CALLED HIGH QUALITY MANUFACTURING and why Honda will always be known and revered…
However, while my car was fully made in Japan, I know now that they assemble Honda cars in both US and Mexico and so I do not know if these cars are the same quality… But Honda should be an example to all!!!
I heard many times that in the past, toasters lasted 10 years, but now only 1 year and this of course leads to piles and piles of trash and e-waste, which also means we rape and pillage mother Gaia / Mother Nature for more resources in order to make NEW products, which also means MORE WARS - if no one hasn’t understood yet, but these wars are not about ‘terrorists’ as they say. That’s what they say on the news, but at the core there are American companies, Chinese companies, and others taking resources – whether it’s Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Africa, Peru … all the same… RESOURCES!
And so this isn’t just about making toasters and cars and TV’s fail, to make people buy more products, this is also about NATURAL RESOURCES and how much we take from Gaia – and if we don’t get smart… these conflicts will continue, and so will the constant polluting of our soil with our garbage, landfills, and e-waste 
Everyone needs to get smart – buy products / from companies that are KNOWN to make products last so that you aren’t buying a new car or new phone every year. What Apple did by making white cables that fall apart after a year is ridiculous! We shouldn’t have companies make products like this!!! We need to set a better example and actually DESIGN AND MAKE PRODUCTS THAT LAST NOT FAIL like Japanese manufacturing!!!
And then they started to build phones with glass screens, and of course these phones break and so now you have people buying a phone every 6 months to a year or they get rid of Aux cable input, and so now you need to buy bluetooth headphones. This is not only wasteful consumerism, but wasteful by design!!! And as this goes on, we take more and more from Gaia to make these products, which a lot of the time leads to conflicts because we are taking these resources often from Tribal communities, so that we can have a new phone every year!!!
Just think about – AMERICAN CONSUMERS AND COMPANIES ARE SOME OF THE MOST WASTEFUL IN THE WORLD!!!
This needs to change and needs to change ASAP.