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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: The Phoebus Cartel
Description: Companies that sell products to the public have to follow a fine line.Â
On the one hand, they need to sell stuff to make money, and the way they do that is by making a good product.Â
However, if their product is too good, then people might not need to buy it again, or at least not for a long time.Â
Almost 100 years ago, a consortium of industrialists plotted to make their products worse just so people would buy more of them.
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