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This toaster was expensive when it launched, but could be considered worth the money since it would last for a long time and it seems to have a good resale pric
by balaji1 5y ago
This toaster was expensive when it launched, but could be considered worth the money since it would last for a long time and it seems to have a good resale price even today.
On the other hand, today it is hard to buy simple things of good quality on Amazon - example 100% cotton or 100% woolen clothes. And it would be harder in a physical superstore like Target or Walmart.
- crooked-v 5y agoYou might appreciate the BuyItForLife subreddit. The ad hoc nature can make it hard to find stuff, but the posts are generally all direct testimonial by people who have had a given item for an extended period of time.
- JetAlone 5y agoImagine if we had testers who take a bunch of products with them into a space apartments moving at relativistic speeds, and when ready to retire they can tell us how their products fared during their lifetime... Corporate monasticism, sacrificing one working life a month or so to create an index that helps punish corporations for poor durability...
- josephcsible 5y agoDoesn't relativity work the other way around? Wouldn't less time pass for them if you did that?
- JetAlone 5y agoYou're right yeah. So I guess we just periodically put the rest of humanity into a relativistic-pace space-station.
- MaurizioPz 5y agothere's a movie for that, but I think it would be a spoiler to name it