Just wondering if I could bring this up for discussion but is Buy it for Life a good consumer philosophy in the first place? Intuitively it sounds like it is —

Just wondering if I could bring this up for discussion but is Buy it for Life a good consumer philosophy in the first place? Intuitively it sounds like it is — what can be bad about high quality products that last forever that in turn creates less waste? But I have lots of BIFL goods that I’ve enjoyed once or twice but never used again. Some got obsolete, unfashionable and almost all are overbuilt to some extent so they last a long time. Others are in a drawer because my interests shifted (like my very high quality immersion circulator for my sous vide phase). They were also much pricier to start with. There’s also an unintended consequence almost — like EDC people buying way more EDC stuff that they can EDC so they can optimize for EDC. What would happen if we were the buy the right quality for the right use case at the right time and buy as little as possible? BIFL optimizes for quality and longevity but those aren’t always things that are important. Optimization always trades something off and having a narrow objective doesn’t always work. I guess you can always resell.