pretty simple!
taken out from here http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=58
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- If a company was to use the best known design and the best known materials, they would likely have a much higher production cost and would likely lose a competitive edge.
- If products were made to last for extended periods of time, people would not need to repeatedly replace, update and fix their items as much, and a vast amount of revenue and jobs would be lost by industry at large, slowing the economy.
This is, of course, unsustainable by definition, for the inherent inefficiency of the economic system eventually creates unnecessary multiplicities, waste and pollution.