Dear Galaki, you're referring to two different topics on your OP.
As a Industrial Designer, I'm supposed to support the idea of building and designing stuff made to break, because this is good for business. But I'm strongly against that, even when in the end that would mean less money for me. Have you seen the amount of e-waste in our World? It's absolutely terrible. And the worst part is: It's not e-waste because it broke thanks to continuous use, or because it was used until the materials used to build them reached their physical limits. It is because planned obsolescence, because it was designed to become e-waster after not many years. Take the iPhones for example. People dispose them like they are trash after the new edition comes out, even when they already have a good phone. And if that fails, Apple uses manufacturing processes that ensure the phone will not last long after that.
And on future-proofing, people really need to know the difference between "what they need" and "what they want". They are not forced to buy everything that comes out anyway, right?
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