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What's the [sustained] financial incentive to produce an unbreakable product?

• ironmagma 3y ago
  The only way you're going to get this is through pride, be that national pride (nationalism) or professional pride. It requires care for the opposite party in the buyer-seller transaction, which the free market is essentially allergic to.
• dv_dt 3y ago
  There is a financial incentive to be reliable enough to at least make it to the next sale with your reputation intact. Especially if it’s on a feature that I would guess was paired with a higher end trim which implies higher end customers.
• KirillPanov 3y ago
  You get to be the largest and most-profitable carmaker, aka Toyota. I only buy used cars, and past the ~7-year-old range used Toyotas routinely cost about twice as much as any other brand for equivalent model/mileage/condition. Yet I still pay the markup because every time I work on mine I am astonished by the fanatical obsession they have with reliability. I'm sure this value retention is reflected in the profit margin on new Toyotas.