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Or people just become satisfied with lower quality. Hand-crafted chairs from a woodworker used to be the only way to get a chair. You'd get an amazing, life-lon
by mc3301 1y ago
Or people just become satisfied with lower quality. Hand-crafted chairs from a woodworker used to be the only way to get a chair. You'd get an amazing, life-long chair with no flaws. Now that chairs are cheaply made in factories, we can have multiple different chairs with many flaws. And just toss them out and go on to the next one when needed. But... those sturdy beautiful fine-wordworker-made chairs are still being built. They are just more rare, expensive, and special than ever before.
- myaccountonhn 1y agoYeah that's where I think it's going. Quality software will have no space but a niche, and so your customers will be the top 1% that can afford it.
- listenallyall 1y agoYou actually believe that not a single woodworker said to himself, there are only so many wealthy people, I might do better if I make some chairs from cheap wood in a hurry, not doing so much polishing or ornamentaion, and I can make twice as many and sell to the not-so-rich people? You really don't think that existed?
- guappa 1y agoOne of the reasons of the downfall of Florence was that they didn't enter the low quality textile market and remained on the high end stuff.
- listenallyall 1y agothe fact that low-quality goods/markets existed, whether textiles or chairs, contradicts the OP's original comment and solidifies mine: "the only way to get a chair... an amazing, life-long chair with no flaws"