That's an interesting question, because it is clearly a function of culture, a culture of maintaining things. It is a culture that has to be fostered and cultiv

That's an interesting question, because it is clearly a function of culture, a culture of maintaining things. It is a culture that has to be fostered and cultivated and … well … maintained. And just like things that are not maintained, a culture of maintenance will not be maintained either if it is not maintained. The way I see it, maintenance is a function of values and whether one earned what one has; a kind of positive self-fulfilling prophesy. It is why across the board today you can see a crumbling of the maintenance culture at all levels, even if there is clear clustering, from the poor who are given things they don't have to earn anymore and therefore don't maintain anything, to the top ruling class that has never maintained anything and has seen everything, from the most solid castles, to human beings, to ships, to centuries old culture and traditions as totally and utterly disposable if it even slightly stands in their way of achieving their usually megalomanic personal gain; to the common people today that have all manner of things, from phones to telecommunications to television to flight to institutions to cars … literally everything … yet lack any perspective whatsoever on how it was produced, the thousands if not millions of prerequisite steps and failures and attempts it took to produce what they just take for granted. One that does not know the actual value of something will not and cannot ever understand the notion of maintenance. It's a concept that even the ancients knew, yet we have lost in many, if not most ways as people have lost all manner of sense of value that they don't even value money anymore to such a degree that they don't even think of it as anything but a mindless exercise they engage in to do or acquire the thing that stimulates their primitive impulses, whatever those may be. I know some people are trying to push a maintenance culture again, by the stick of enforcement, but reality is that it simply will not work as long as the seemingly lasting negation of scarcity holds. Maybe one day people will realize that all the promises to pay or be paid for the work they did, as embodied in debt, is simply not going to be paid nor can be paid, and it all comes crumbling down and a natural order of scarcity is established that will make people want to maintain things, but until that time, this will only get worse with every passing day as you chuck your $1,000 phone aside very year for a new one without even a second thought.