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67 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h \ parent \ on: Maintenance is not a Romantic Subject (FT, Tim Harford) HealthAndFitness

Human time is so valuable. I bet repairs would become normal again if they could reduce the human time involved in the process.

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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 9h

Technology for reusability just hasn't seem to have advanced very much. I wonder what the underlying incentive reason is for that. Is it hard to appropriate the surplus generated from reusability tech?

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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h

I'm thinking that there's less uniformity in how things break than there is in how they're built, so it's harder to automate a repair process.

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