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You assume that this ain’t the will of the free market. People won’t pay for reliability. You see this everywhere frankly. Reliability is only valuable to busi

• mschuster91 3y ago
  > Reliability is only valuable to business customers. Customers will not pay for reliable appliances, reliable airlines, etc. Because no one has the money for that any more. Almost all of our problems, in the end, boil down to decades of wage stagnation correlated with cost-of-living explosion. Like 58% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck [1]... they are living the Boots Theory [2] and left to deal with the fallout when disaster (inevitably) strikes. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/58percent-of-americans-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-cnbc-survey-reveals.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/58percent-of-americans-are-l... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory