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Good or bad are subjective, but "endless cheap plastic shit" certainly does lower the average quality of goods available today.
by amarant 2y ago
Good or bad are subjective, but "endless cheap plastic shit" certainly does lower the average quality of goods available today.
- eru 2y agoWhat do you care about the overall average quality? You don't need to buy them. You only need to worry about perhaps the average of the things you buy.
- bombcar 2y agoExactly - what most people are really complaining about when they say everything is crap these days is that other people make different decisions about purchasing, or that they wish they were forced to buy the higher quality item. It is a bit annoying to have to search and find high-quality items, but it's still doable.
- chimpanzee 2y agoIt’s amusing that you presume to know what people are really complaining about. Even better is pointing out a perfectly valid concern regarding higher search costs, and then brushing that aside altogether simply because it doesn’t completely prevent search.
- chimpanzee 2y agoSome reasons one might care about average quality: 1. Environmental damage 2. Higher search costs 3. Higher transaction costs 4. Opportunity cost