There is a growing legislative movement – yes, elected politicians are always looking for something to do – to create and enforce a “right to repair” your stuff. It applies to cars and trucks but the newest candidate for inclusion concerns your electronic gadgets.
You have probably had experience with the problem. Your iPhone breaks and you are looking for someone to fix it. But then you become aware of a problem. If you take it to a street vendor or some other random repair person, your device falls out of warranty. That’s dangerous because if the repair fails, you have a paperweight instead of a phone.
Pro-Market Legislation?
The right-to-repair movement has a legislative agenda to force companies to stop practices that penalize customers for taking their things to independent repair shops. It sounds rather unobjectionable, even consistent with free-market thinking. Just such a movement ended John Deere’s claim that its truck can only be repaired by authorized dealers.
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