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You deserve the right to repair your stuff | Gay Gordon-Byrne

TED Business

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Repair Jobs Are Great Jobs, and They Don't Require an Advanced Degree

The trend towards a throwaway economy is reversing all over the world, and it's really fun to be able to tell you about it. Manufacturers used to provide comprehensive documentation and schematics with every product. Then once the internet allowed theddocumentation to be hosted on line, manufacturers stopped printing. And that's where we are to day. We can't get what we need to fix our stuff. So i'm very encouraged by the fact that our throw away economy, the trend is reversing, and we are going to be ableto fix our stuff."

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