i don't know why the fuck is the 'phoebus cartel' article still up there with the 'holocaust' as the shit that didn't happen and was completely misunderstood. you might as well say that having seatbelts in cars is "a cartel", yes it is that fucking retarded. anyone who knows at all how incandescent lights work already knows that "planned obsolescence" for them is simply complete horseshit from physics standpoint. there are multiple videos on youtube about this too >  7bs98kmny the tl;dr; of it the standardization was simply so the bulb makers would stay honest and fair and follow the same standard of quality, it was not a price cartel or planned obsolescence cartel, it was a honesty "cartel" that nobody would sell their wares with any bullshit claims. how bright you can make a bulb burn from a given amount of energy is how thin you make the tungsten wire if you make the wire thicker it will be more dim so you need to give it more energy which makes it hotter and doesnt actually make it last longer and if you make it thinner its brighter meaning less energy to make it as bright and less heat, which makes it burn slower but also thin of course means less material to burn through to snap it's a balancing act and how the physics of it works, you instantly know the whole 'phoebus cartel' is fucking retarded bullshit what you're essentially saying is that water bottle suppliers have a cartel of only selling wet water. yes that is how ridiculous the phoebus cartel bullshit sounds to anyone who understands anything about basic physics
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