The designers at a manufacturing company are coming out with a new product but they want to sell more units, so 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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