Refrigerator manufacturers rejoice!
Now people are going to have to replace their perfectly good refrigerators with new ones.
At a yard sale, I had a chance to buy a working refrigerator with SULFUR as the refrigerant. I saw it later at the town dump!
It’s called “Planned Obsolescence” in which things are made to not last so long forcing you to keep money moving in the economy by buying new items.
My folks bought a small air fan which lasted fifty eight years, a B&W TV which lasted 15 years, later a small air conditioner that lasted thirty eight years.
Now such items are lucky to last five years.
We were taught in high School, sixty years ago, that high dollar items were not designed to become obsolete to force you to buy newer items.
Yeah, Sure.