GM, in the bad-old-days of planned obsolescence, was focused on screwing their customers. The F-35 program is designed to extract as much money as humanly poss

GM, in the bad-old-days of planned obsolescence, was focused on screwing their customers. The F-35 program is designed to extract as much money as humanly possible from the US Treasury. There are pharmaceuticals designed the same way. In tandem with lobbyist-penned laws that (a) ban Medicare from negotiating drug prices and (b) ban them from refusing any treatment deemed "medically necessary" they are patent-protected pipelines for moving taxpayer dollars into offshore accounts that are (unsurprisingly) tax free. The list goes on.