> Most products today are less durable and are generally worse than "yesterday", in my opinion. Much of this, I feel, is survivor bias (https://en.wikipedia.or

> Most products today are less durable and are generally worse than "yesterday", in my opinion. Much of this, I feel, is survivor bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias) and I totally agree with your thoughts on it. Anecdotal story from my grandfather which occurred circa 1955: He purchased a "name brand" television in 1955, when TVs were still very new and rather expensive (I don't know the brand, sadly, and he's long since passed to ask him). Got the TV home, plugged it in, and almost immediately the vacuum tubes in the television burned out. Called a repairman to service the television. Repairman came out, replaced all of the vacuum tubes, ran a few checks on the electronics to see if everything checked out. It did, and the serviceman took care of the billing and left--all the while, the television was on and operating. As the serviceman was leaving the driveway, the tubes burned out again.