Oh, it goes beyond that. In some cases it's stupidity. But in others, it's active malice for purpose of power or money. Rules and even laws are being passed which ban people from doing things for themselves or others.
Farmers are banned from repairing their own equipment because of proprietary parts and software; they're fighting back because the lock on proprietary repairmen makes it impossible to farm. It's too expensive and the time lag is too long. I don't know why nobody's pounced on the opportunity; if I were making farm equipment, I put out a line like "Fix-it Felix Tractors: designed for the handy farmer, you can fix it!"
Locally, the frankly psychotic health board banned potlucks. If you want to have an event that's open to the public, with food, you have to pay someone to cater it. So now someone else controls what people are permitted to eat at those events, and I ran into a problem with servers not letting me have what I needed. Not to mention my inner Indian running in circles going "AAAAA they're banning potlatch again AAAAAAAAAA!" >_< That really undermines the human bonding potential.
People have been arrested in other places for feeding the homeless. The state won't do it, and now wants to make sure nobody else does it either.
For most products, if you try to repair them, it voids the warranty. Often they're designed so they can't be repaired.
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Re: Yes ...
Date: 2018-01-18 06:03 pm (UTC)Farmers are banned from repairing their own equipment because of proprietary parts and software; they're fighting back because the lock on proprietary repairmen makes it impossible to farm. It's too expensive and the time lag is too long. I don't know why nobody's pounced on the opportunity; if I were making farm equipment, I put out a line like "Fix-it Felix Tractors: designed for the handy farmer, you can fix it!"
Locally, the frankly psychotic health board banned potlucks. If you want to have an event that's open to the public, with food, you have to pay someone to cater it. So now someone else controls what people are permitted to eat at those events, and I ran into a problem with servers not letting me have what I needed. Not to mention my inner Indian running in circles going "AAAAA they're banning potlatch again AAAAAAAAAA!" >_< That really undermines the human bonding potential.
People have been arrested in other places for feeding the homeless. The state won't do it, and now wants to make sure nobody else does it either.
For most products, if you try to repair them, it voids the warranty. Often they're designed so they can't be repaired.
It's infantilization. It's appalling. It's causing problems. And it's getting rapidly worse.