Shorter life cycles: Disposables, the new durables

What Bic unleashed from the mid-20th century - the shortened life cycle - has become a default setting in today's world of consumer durables. Not only are products imbued with a short life span, but even customers of taste (read: those willing to pay premium on quality) don't expect things to last, literally or rhetorically.

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