Does the corporation have a moral rights to embark of planned obsolescened?

Question

as long as it will mean increasing volume of sales in accordingling an increase in profits?

Answer 1

Planned obsolescence has been used for the past thousand years or so. The issue is not one of morality or corporate bias, it is rather one of wear and tear. It is expected that a product, any product will wear out in time and need replacement. The moral dilemma of which you speak would be how long the product is created to last before replacement and whether or not manipulation of that time is fair to the consumer. Most people now days accept the fact that the product will need replacement, however, usually they expect a certain degree of operation for the expected time. When the time is manipulated, and the product does not last for the time expected, it put an undue burden on the consumer to now find the necessary expenses to replace the product.