> I think the comment by Nagle, which indeed seems to include "everything you see" [0], is a bit too extreme.

i think Pendergrast used the quote to highlight the capitalist dynamic that incentivizes the profit-seeking economy towards creating low-quality single-use industrially-produced products, due to the parasitic economic rents from intellectual property making proper products overly expensive. in other words: the propertied class makes the working class pay double/triple.

that and planned obsolescence.

that's what i read in this article.