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Possibly! I just think we should be clear about what tradeoffs are being proposed. This isn't all fairy dust and magic, and the average person doesn't have the

• mistrial9 3y ago
  > the average person doesn't have the background to understand yes agree - so there must be manufacturing standards and product testing. Similarly it is established law that some products are inherently unsafe. The law must always adapt to new techniques, materials and chains of distribution.
  • trey-jones 3y ago
    Any system of standards and testing can be gamed. It's better for the average person to better educate themselves on purchases. I don't know how realistic this is. Additional difficulty is added by the amount of (mis/dis)information available to consumers. Very few sources are trustworthy and your mileage may vary of course. Adjacent to this issue is the broader issue that rampant capitalism encourages rampant buying of stuff - often stuff that we don't need, and surprisingly often stuff we don't even want. Think Gift Giving culture nowadays. With fewer things to purchase, more effort could go into the important purchases, I would think.
    • throwaway15858 3y ago
      I've thought about this and there's no way to condense a multivariate notion of product quality into a scale. The best I've come up with is that all products should have to prominently advertise their years of warranty support. This creates an incentive for products to last longer than the warranty and makes comparison shopping easy.