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In an era of throwaway culture, products built to fail are costing us trust, money and something often overlooked – mental health.
As The Wall Street Journal recently discussed, consumers are addicted to cheap goods that they don’t need and are engineered to fail. With every purchase of another low-quality disposable product, there’s a growing cognitive dissonance: We know our choices are contributing to something harmful — to ourselves, our finances and our environment — but we can’t seem to help ourselves.
This ongoing struggle is taking a toll. A 2023 study published by Frontiers in Psychology found that materialism is consistently