Which decade do you think was the best?

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53. Interesting link you posted, especially this paragraph. I didn't realize

planned obsolesce went back to 1932, and also the notion of gov. required obsolesce as a proposal.

Origins of planned obsolescence go back at least as far as 1932 with Bernard London's pamphlet Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence. It is interesting[citation needed] to note that the essence of London's plan would have the government impose a legal obsolescence on consumer articles in order to stimulate and perpetuate consumption. However, the phrase was first popularized in 1954 by Brooks Stevens, an American industrial designer. Stevens was due to give a talk at an advertising conference in Minneapolis in 1954. Without giving it much thought, he used the term as the title of his talk. From that point on, "planned obsolescence" became Stevens' catchphrase. By his definition, planned obsolescence was "Instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary."

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence