indeed, they’d last probably almost as long as promised if they were never turned on.
The other way to get longer life out of them is to leave them on all the time. But what kind of dummass liberal would think you would save electricity by leaving the light on all the time to keep from burning the bulb out sooner?
I have one light that I never turn off (it's a nightlight in the kids' room. I use a small CFL for it. Works perfect, and the fact that it is a POS that has a fading light output is fine. I don't want a lot of light from it.
Otherwise? Yup, they likely think that you save electricity by burning it. Idiots all.