The repair culture exists because there's a market for it. People's disposable income--or lack thereof--forces them to make do with less shiny, older, products. As society gets richer, this repair culture, too, will fade and go extinct. "When I can easily afford, why should I settle?", the thinking will go.
What I'd like to see is for society to embrace repair culture because that feels the right thing to do. A culture where it should feel immoral to chuck something out when there's still life left on the product. A culture where repairing makes economic sense--i.e., the cost of repair doesn't surpass that of a new, comparable, product by a wide margin.
When deprecation is the norm and fashion, when companies are incentivized to "innovate" (read: planned obsolescence) and flood the market with cheap products, there won't be a repair culture.
What I'd like to see is for society to embrace repair culture because that feels the right thing to do. A culture where it should feel immoral to chuck something out when there's still life left on the product. A culture where repairing makes economic sense--i.e., the cost of repair doesn't surpass that of a new, comparable, product by a wide margin.
When deprecation is the norm and fashion, when companies are incentivized to "innovate" (read: planned obsolescence) and flood the market with cheap products, there won't be a repair culture.