The designers at a manufacturing company are coming out with new products. Because they want to sell more units, they deliberately engineer the products to have a limited useful life. This illustrates the concept of__________.
A. cultural diffusion
B. deliberate dumping
C. conspicuous consumption
D. planned obsolescence
Answer: D
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