Zone1 Everything you buy is designed to break

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This light bulb was made 110 years ago, and still works

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In fact, appliances decades ago lasted for decades, instead of 5 or so years and then break as they do today. They just make crap now.

The bottom line is, things are designed to break so as to create more revenue for these corporations. They can build them to last, but don't.

In fact, I can't tell you how many items I have bought that break days after their warranty was up. Such precise engineering is as impressive as it is maddening to know that they are using their intellect to rob you of every dime they can.

IF they started to build things to last, which they have demonstrated in the past they can, would it kill the economy or make it stronger? Obviously, not throwing things away constantly would help save natural resources and not contaminate the environment as much as it does.
 

This light bulb was made 110 years ago, and still works

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In fact, appliances decades ago lasted for decades, instead of 5 or so years and then break as they do today. They just make crap now.

The bottom line is, things are designed to break so as to create more revenue for these corporations. They can build them to last, but don't.

In fact, I can't tell you how many items I have bought that break days after their warranty was up. Such precise engineering is as impressive as it is maddening to know that they are using their intellect to rob you of every dime they can.

IF they started to build things to last, which they have demonstrated in the past they can, would it kill the economy or make it stronger? Obviously, not throwing things away constantly would help save natural resources and not contaminate the environment as much as it does.
 
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Before I decided to quit using Amazon, I bought from them what I estimated to be a year's worth of incandescent bulbs, and here I am, three years later, having replaced only about 8 or 10 of them. I wonder if, at this rate, my supply will last until the country starts thinking with common sense.


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This light bulb was made 110 years ago, and still works

View attachment 1067156

In fact, appliances decades ago lasted for decades, instead of 5 or so years and then break as they do today. They just make crap now.

The bottom line is, things are designed to break so as to create more revenue for these corporations. They can build them to last, but don't.

In fact, I can't tell you how many items I have bought that break days after their warranty was up. Such precise engineering is as impressive as it is maddening to know that they are using their intellect to rob you of every dime they can.

IF they started to build things to last, which they have demonstrated in the past they can, would it kill the economy or make it stronger? Obviously, not throwing things away constantly would help save natural resources and not contaminate the environment as much as it does.
a guy I knew back in the 70s had an old wall sconce with a everlast lightbulb his grandmother bought back in the 20s that he had kept lit in the 20 yrs hes owned it,, and from what he said it had been on most of its life,,


when I worked for goodyear tires they told us they had a tire that could last pretty much forever but had no intentions to market it for obvious reasons,,
 
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I actually remember when American manufacturers were proud of making products that were meant to last.

Kenmore, Maytag, Craftsman, et cetera.

Nowadays, product quality and service are a joke. I just took my car into the tire and maintenance shop. to have tire pressure adjusted. As the woman aired my tires, I explained that the last tech to rotate them told me that he couldn't get them aligned right. I had driven on them and felt a slight pull to the right and took the car back to be adjusted again, but he told me the alignment problem was because I needed new tires. When I told her that, she checked them and said there was still plenty of use in them.

I asked her how much for the air, and she said "Nothing, just keep bringing the car here for maintenance."

She could have sold me a new set of tires, but preferred to keep me as a long term customer.

That's American service, which includes not scamming your customers. They will always be my car care guys because of it.


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I wish they would sell the formula for shoe soles....I used to wear out the uppers long before the soles crapped out.
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I got a lot of how-to manuals on making shoes, but none of it includes the materials they use these days. It would be great if we could fix our own shoes,


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I got a lot of how-to manuals on making shoes, but none of it includes the materials they use these days. It would be great if we could fix our own shoes,


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Maybe individuals can research this themselves and sell things that actually last.

If you do, you should be able to retire wealthy and move on to something else.

But once you enter the corporate structure, forget about it. At that point they want to maximize taking as much money from the consumer indefinitely as they can like the leach they are.

Corporations are very much like government entities in that respect. In fact, corporations are government constructs.
 
Maybe individuals can research this themselves and sell things that actually last.

If you do, you should be able to retire wealthy and move on to something else.

But once you enter the corporate structure, forget about it. At that point they want to maximize taking as much money from the consumer as they can.
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I wish I was young enough!


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I actually remember when American manufacturers were proud of making products that were meant to last.

Kenmore, Maytag, Craftsman, et cetera.

Nowadays, product quality and service are a joke. I just took my car into the tire and maintenance shop. to have tire pressure adjusted. As the woman aired my tires, I explained that the last tech to rotate them told me that he couldn't get them aligned right. I had driven on them and felt a slight pull to the right and took the car back to be adjusted again, but he told me the alignment problem was because I needed new tires. When I told her that, she checked them and said there was still plenty of use in them.

I asked her how much for the air, and she said "Nothing, just keep bringing the car here for maintenance."

She could have sold me a new set of tires, but preferred to keep me as a long term customer.

That's American service, which includes not scamming your customers. They will always be my car care guys because of it.


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Buy a Speedqueen analog commercial washer and dryer....Buy once cry once.

But yeah, when I sold my mom's house there was a Maytag W&D set I know was 40 years old and a Kenmore chest freezer older than those.....All worked just fine.

She also had a Crosley refrigerator from the 50s that still worked fine but a friend wanted to buy it for a vintage bar set-up so I told him he could have it if he moved it.

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Everything you buy is designed to break​


Exactly. I talk about this all the time. A friend taught me about DESIGNED OBSOLESCENCE back in the 1970s when we hooked up and started working on our own improved stereo equipment.
  • Stereo gear never sounds as good as it could because they have to sell you the 'new and improved' model they will release next year.
  • They no longer make Mesta Machine steel making equipment because they went out of business because the stuff never wore out.
  • They keep out-dating your software and making you buy new computers and cellphones not that there was ever a thing wrong with the old stuff.
  • The LP was at its pinnacle when it was replaced by the inferior CD even though it was sold as "Perfect Sound Forever" because it made them more money.
  • Everything is made out of plastic now only toi work and last long enough as their capital projections require to keep making billions for themselves.
The consumer is milked of trillions of dollars to support making other people rich unless you simply stop being a good consumer and find or make your own exceptions outside the box of what the consumer industry wants to offer you.
 
Buy a Speedqueen analog commercial washer and dryer....Buy once cry once.

But yeah, when I sold my mom's house there was a Maytag W&D set I know was 40 years old and a Kenmore chest freezer older than those.....All worked just fine.

She also had a Crosley refrigerator from the 50s that still worked fine but a friend wanted to buy it for a vintage bar set-up so I told him he could have it if he moved it.

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If I could get the Speedqueen, I would!

I refuse to own a "smart" appliance.


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As told above: If you make a product that lasts forever, you'll go out of business when those that want one, have one.
It takes a fair amount of R&D work to determine how to make things fail when they should. Greedy capitalists must look out for their profit margins. They don't have a choice.
 
Over the past few years I've bought a new furnace and air conditioning, a new hot water heater, new washer and dryer, new oven, and a new dishwasher.

All of my old stuff, which was around 25 years old, were still working.

None of this new stuff will last a fraction as long as the stuff I replaced.
 
That is the total truth!
They don't make thing like they used to.

One of my grandmothers had an ice cream soda fountain place that I think also did tailoring or dry cleaning. My grandfather had a shoe repair place next door. It was in the bottom floor of where they lived.

I still have one of her ice cream scoops, the shovel kind, and one of her other ones that made it into a ball and the pressed a paddle to push it out. Both are still great and work, I just used the former to serve salad.

I also still had one of her milk shake machines but sold it to a collector a few years ago. Worked great.

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