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Washing machines are a good example. The old ones are still running 40 years later and the new ones you're lucky if they don't fail the day after the warranty e
by User23 6y ago
Washing machines are a good example. The old ones are still running 40 years later and the new ones you're lucky if they don't fail the day after the warranty expires.
- jstanley 6y agoThis could easily be selection bias. The only 40-year-old washing machines you run into are the good ones, because the bad ones were scrapped a long time ago.
- jacobr1 6y agoAlso repairability - if it is easy to acquire or (or even spot manufacture) replacement parts plenty of things can lost quite a long time (in the theseus ship sense).