{"id":4747,"date":"2020-01-10T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microingranaggi.it\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:45:11","slug":"production-production-production-but-do-we-really-need-everything-we-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microjournal-2024.microingranaggi.it\/en\/production-production-production-but-do-we-really-need-everything-we-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Production, production, production. But do we really need everything we buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Would you purchase nowadays a car without electric windows? That is .. if cars with manual windows still exist\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>In my opinion, the answer is NO. No in 99% of all cases. Now we are so accustomed to opening and closing windows by simply pressing a button, it would never cross our minds to go back to performing the same function with three turns of the handle.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, we should remember that the first electric windows were installed in cars in the 1940s-50s, and only saw wider distribution later on. Before then, we managed perfectly well without them. And I am convinced that when they were first launched on the market, many considered them to be a rather, if not very senseless solution. A total waste of money. Am I wrong?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MICROingranaggi<\/strong> collaborates with enterprises from a wide variety of industrial sectors, so we are often faced with situations where there is an enormous enthusiasm in designing automated systems to meet market demands, but for which &#8211; if you think about it &#8211; apparently there is no real need. Yet in most cases they refer to automated solutions for which there is reasonable certainty (at a marketing level) that they can actually appreciated by the market and therefore purchased, even when there is no specific need.<\/p>\n<p>An what is the outcome? The outcome is that manufacturers such as us continue to<\/p>\n<h2>produce, produce, produce. Increasingly more and increasingly swifter. An infinite quantity of objects and solutions that are then purchased. Often when there is no apparent need.<\/h2>\n<p>The question that arises (especially as the <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday\">Black Friday period<\/a> has just terminated, and we are preparing for the festive period and the January sales):<\/p>\n<h2>is, do we really need everything we buy?<\/h2>\n<p>No, absolutely not. And the waste landfills are increasingly full. So why do we keep buying?<\/p>\n<p>I leave you with this query and wish you all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you purchase nowadays a car without electric windows? That is .. if cars with manual windows still exist\u2026 In my opinion, the answer is NO. No in 99% of all cases. 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