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Lol, they are not getting cheaper. For decades, products are getting made with increasingly shittier parts. Big box items like fridges/washers/etc are nowhere n
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Lol, they are not getting cheaper. For decades, products are getting made with increasingly shittier parts. Big box items like fridges/washers/etc are nowhere near as reliable as our grandparent's were. They break just outside of manufacturer warranties. Selling a washer that lasts for years and years doesn't help YoY growth. Prices stay the same all the while they bilk you right under your nose (https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180510-the-food-you-buy-really-is-shrinking https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180510-the-food-you-b...).
But if you want to go ahead and be a ignorant lemming like these companies want you to be, by all means do so; It doesn't change reality.
- adrianN 5y agoWell, my grandparents couldn't afford neither a fridge nor a washing machine at all and now you can get one with a week of minimum wage work. The problem is that as a consumer I can't distinguish between a washing machine that is expensive because it's built to last and a washing machine that's expensive because somebody liked a higher profit margin, so the market naturally converges to things that last exactly as long as they have to to avoid lawsuits.