You fixed the rule for your thought experiment to emulate something that doesn't exist. Congratulations, you got the result you expected, and it's completely us

You fixed the rule for your thought experiment to emulate something that doesn't exist. Congratulations, you got the result you expected, and it's completely useless. Yes, for your thought "product" that has a single quality of "how long it lasts" the "people" that all have the universal characteristics of wanting to reuse it indefinitely and absolutely no practical restrictions to cash-flow will pick the better quality one if they are acting rationally.