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Is changing brake fluid every 3 years a requirement or dealers idea for profit

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I've never changed any fluids in any of my vehicles that I have owned, except for the regular scheduled oil and filter changes. I will say here I only put around 75,000 miles max on any vehicle that I have owned in the past 25 years and I usually trade my vehicles every five years, or so. I will say here, if I was going to keep my vehicles for some 150,000/200,000 plus miles I might do my scheduled maintaince on a different schedule then I do now, but for me I see no reason to change the way I do it. When I trade my vehicle in the dealer is probably going to do all the maintaince at that time so they can sell it under there factory warranty plan, so I see no reason to spend money when it's not need for my use of time. Since I live in Texas where we generally have nice weather this could be the reason for less vehicle maintaince, as we don't go from one extreme to another as many do yearly.
This is precisely why I only buy new vehicles (aside from my collector/antiques). I don't want to buy someone else's neglected used one.