They stopped building it like that because nobody wants to pay full price for quality. Too bad, because quality meant that you only bought it one time.
More like the corporations got wise and started intentionally manufacturing everything with a calculated end of life so they could continue to make profits by continuously releasing sub par upgrades or models with different features for different price points once or twice a year by focusing most of their spending on marketing and barely anything on r&d or qc and buying bottom barrel minimum standard components mfgd by 3rd world slaves who hate us.
They propelled consumer electronics as religion to fulfill the irreligious, then released a new product every year.
That is the absolute best description I've heard of this. It really is like a religious event when the next iPhone comes out.
My inexpensive fridge had an ice dam once, so I took off the back of the freezer side (where the cooling takes place). There were scorch marks all over the cardboard and whatever, I would say they take deliberate steps to cause failure.
They did that with printers after so many pages had been printed.
Supply follows demand. If consumers stop buying anything they suspect will be garbage the companies will supply quality products. Hell, in the short term all it would take is 60% of the market research participants rating products and giving feedback accordingly.
But there's a deeper problem: the planned and controlled continual transfer of wealth upward. Most people are too poor to invest in quality. They have to choose to go into debt for a quality item or buy what they can afford. Either way they lose.
Furthermore our billionaire overlords are using every bit of manipulation they have available to confuse the issue and hide the value in a lasting product. Without critical information the consumers are lost.
Supply follows demand. If consumers stop buying anything they suspect will be garbage the companies will supply quality products.
They'd put more money into making their products seem like quality and buying any start up that makes quality goods, when people need a replacement for something vital they won't have a choice except to buy trash.
Tv repair, appliance repair, knife sharpener guys- shit would run forever with a replacement part every once in a while.
When I was a kid, there was a man who came around door to door, same time every year, to sharpen our knives. He did the pruning shears too. Dad couldn’t wait for that guy every spring.
I have a tractor from 1953. It has an oil air cleaner. Literally sucks the intake air through oil (like a weed bong actually). No filter needed ever. Just take it off spray it clean add half a cup of engine oil and go!
A lot of early vehicles had those too, great filter.
K&N air filters work this way. Every year you're supposed to wash them and spray new oil on them.
It was never about price. It was always about our enslavement and destruction using any means necessary including the use of loss leader marketing models.
It was always about selling you the same product over and over.
'Planned Obsolescence'
No, they stopped building them like that because we wouldn't buy a new one. That's why so many things are cheaper to buy new now than to repair. What this cycle does is guarantees, usually, the company turns a profit and keeps sales either growing or steady triggering their contractual bonuses.
If items lasted 10-15 years, there's no reason to buy a new one in 3.
You make money on repair parts, too. Jews are just shortsighted and would rather see an immediate increase in profits over a long term increase via brand reliability and a longer replacement cycle.
Yes, but you don't make the same amount on repair parts. That's why the Maytag Man commercials were funny.
It's not just that though, because people generally don't want to buy used stuff either. You could buy that vintage whatever you want and fix it up, but it doesn't have all the latest features and the styling is terrible. People like to have updated styling.
Learn to love cast iron, takes minimal upkeep to maintain and will last a lifetime.
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