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It’s all a reflection of culture. Anyone who thinks the culture hasn’t deteriorated is fooling themselves. You’re lucky to live in a throwback locale.
The problem with these incandescent lamps is they generate a lot of heat that today's light sockets, which are cheap Chinese junk mostly, can't withstand much of and burn out rather quickly. That was mainly the reason I had to switch to the LED ones. I remember when they promised them eternal life span. As always the bastards cheated us.))
That’s why sockets often used to be made of porcelain.
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I remember in the old USSR there came a time when seemingly almost overnight we ran into a problem of a very acute shortage of light bulbs all over the country. A while later it came to light that before the shortage occurred the light bulb warehouses ran into a totally different problem, I.e. of being overcrowded by those same bulbs on account of them being too much durable. People stopped buying them, like you did, because they were built to last. So to sort the issue out they cut the width of the new bulb spirals and lo and behold, in a year or so we ran out of light and were almost plunged into darkness. The moral, I dare say, is the unreliability problem is mostly man-made.
And like John Deere, they're programmed so you have to get John Deere to fix it.
Cars are more reliable
How is my John Deere programmed? It has no computer components.
That's because there are too many morons out there that would drink the contents.
Modern cars do not change spark plugs, the hoses last the lifetime of the car, and the belts last for years.
That light bulb is a rarity, but also it has only been shut off/on a few times and it is the rapid temperature transitions between off and on, that cause stresses in the tungsten which over time eventually fractures. In electronics generally the greatest risk of failure is typically during power on/off.
World's Oldest Light Bulb That Still Works
The world's oldest functioning light bulb is 110 years old and still burning.www.lightbulbs.com
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.
You certainly can get a Speed Queen.
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