Planned obsolescence is a wasteful practice that began nearly 80 years ago and has wrought havoc on the innovation of long-lasting products. By limiting the longevity of their product, a company would subtly force the consumer to buy the product more often.
By outlawing this wasteful practice, consumers would save money by being able to buy a product that, usually, could live twice as long (i.e light bulbs could live for 2500 hours or more instead of the manufacturer's set 1000 hours).
In addition, the outlawing of such a trivial practice would decrease consumer waste and the energy used to produce more of the weakened product.
The United Kingdom has all ready declared this a breach in consumer rights. This raises the question: why have we not?