You and I both hate it, and they don't care and are implementing it by shipping intentionally poorly engineered product to encourage totally random early produc

You and I both hate it, and they don't care and are implementing it by shipping intentionally poorly engineered product to encourage totally random early product failure, optimistically without personal injury. I'd much rather prefer they shipped something bulletproof that had a counter, WRT personal convenience. OK so I got 72 laundry loads left and I can schedule a convenient weekend delivery for ... We're peasants, we don't own anything and if we think we do it'll be taken away. That's an annoying and unpleasant lesson to learn, but learning it has its own value. There is a decay of civilization aspect... you can tell a culture is dying when specialization dies. One way specialization dies is by making it cheaper to dis-intermediate and eliminate the specialization. Soon, it'll be too expensive for all but the rich to own clothes washers that run for more than a year. At that point we'll rent the use of a rich guys laundromat, or we'll hand wash. That lack of specialization is an indicator of societal collapse. "we will all share cars (via an app)" or "we will all share place-to-crash couches (via an app)" are the same deal. In that way it's a symptom of decay, not really evil. Evil would be setting off the collapse, encouraging it, trying to drag everyone else down... its like saying the blood chemistry lab results of a dying guy are evil; not really; the guy who shot him might be evil, but symptoms of the process are just an observation. Another example.. the only ways to get high quality wood furniture or wood work is either be very rich, have very poor taste, or become a woodworker yourself. Luckily I find it fun and relaxing as a hobby, although it's absolutely pitiful that due to de-specialization the best way for a software dev to obtain good carpentry work is to learn to do it himself. There are probably ways to make money off these large scale very long term trends. Rome didn't fall in a day, lots of money made on the way down.