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In Western countries, the time of skilled repairmen is better spent repairing things which are much more important and expensive than consumer goods. And a con
by carlosjobim 6mo ago
In Western countries, the time of skilled repairmen is better spent repairing things which are much more important and expensive than consumer goods.
And a consumer usually has a much higher return from working in his specialized field to earn money and buy a new product, than spending time with difficult repairs of a broken product.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoYeah, this is entirely a function of labor costs. If you want your stuff repaired, ship it to a low-labor cost economy or hire someone to whom it’s worth the time.
- hx8 6mo agoJust to take one step further, labor costs are largely a function of local real estate costs.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> labor costs are largely a function of local real estate costs Difficult to determine causality in that system. All we can say is places with expensive labour tend to have expensive real estate. (The confounding variable, I imagine, is immigration.)
- carlosjobim 6mo agoTo add to that; labour should be expensive. And lower repairability of consumer goods is a side effect that is worth dealing with for that benefit.