Well, 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 tha

Well, 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.