Agreed. Capitalism at work is sometimes (often?) short-sighted, and a frustrating thing to watch...

That absolutely makes sense. If we can engineer the *how* of how to build the products (and really, now, how many consumer products that are being "thrown out" are cutting edge?), we absolutely should be able to design the how to deconstruct and reuse the products.

I'm dying over here... only because what you just said could have come verbatim out of my company's quarterly newsletters. It didn't used to be like this, there...

You had people chiseling graffiti into things. I have a photo (sadly, not yet in digital format, otherwise I'd gladly post it) from the top of Notre Dame, I think, with a rough sketch of what looks like a hat, and the date, 1698! Chiseled~!