I associate general consumers who don’t repair things and instead purchase to replace with the poor. It is a matter of the ability to command of labor. Repairin

I associate general consumers who don’t repair things and instead purchase to replace with the poor. It is a matter of the ability to command of labor. Repairing is cheaper. The loss of the ability to do so is the loss of the ability to command labor. So yes, perhaps in 20 years when manufacturing practices are so common as to relinquish control from the purchaser everyone will be all the more poor, because the idea that the common man be able to flourish is becoming antiquated.