Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff

[learninmypc]

Last summer, fourth-generation California farmer Dave Alford showed correspondent David Pogue around his 2004 John Deere tractor.

"Oh, man, it's like a 747 cockpit over here!" Pogue laughed. "Not your grandfather's tractor!"

But it was this tractor that caused him grief during last year's planting season: "I got in the tractor, and it throws an error code up in that readout," Alford said. "So, I called my dealer. 'Hey, I'm in a bind.' And they're busy and they can't come just like that."

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[Underdog]

In my humble opinion people need to fight for the right to repair. You can't make any progress in reducing wasteful landfill by not repairing things. If the greedy manufacturers get their way the repair mindset, along with the skills will disappear. Jobs are disppearing fast enough due to technology automation.