Abundant commodities, energy, and capital make low cost mass manufacture possible. There are numerous items consumers, buy, use a few times, and then discard o

Abundant commodities, energy, and capital make low cost mass manufacture possible. There are numerous items consumers, buy, use a few times, and then discard or store. There are even more items consumers use, and due to poor quality turn in to trash. I'm not sure which is more backwards thinking. I am annoyed when something breaks and the cost to repair it exceeds the replacement cost.