it's pretty simple, if stuff was well designed and could last forever, they couldn't charge you for maintenance or sell you new units. incandescent light bulbs can actually last forever, but they're designed to burn out after a while so you'd keep buying more. one of the stark examples of capitalism stifling innovation.
Pretty much just this and add in a bit of US copyright and patent laws which are slowly influencing the rest of the world (Trans-Pacific Partnership etc.) and you've got the full picture.
it's pretty simple, if stuff was well designed and could last forever, they couldn't charge you for maintenance or sell you new units. incandescent light bulbs can actually last forever, but they're designed to burn out after a while so you'd keep buying more. one of the stark examples of capitalism stifling innovation.
At my grandmas house they have a garlic crusher they've been using for 50+ years. Meanwhile I've gone through 5 of them in the last decade because they fricking break all the time
You don't need a book, just apply common sense. It's the same old story: greed and government. Corporate greed, low quality third world electronic components, planned obsolescence, assembly by slave labor. Stupid tree hugger shit like demonizing various materials (Freon being an example relevant to OP's pic) and trying to make shit more "energy efficient" has made buying quality products at any price damn near impossible, as well as the demonization or outright banning of the use of certain chemicals has made various trades like construction and auto body work cost more for an inferior result.
For air conditioners and refrigerators specifically, it's because of chemicals called CFCs. Essentially, they're excellent refrigerants, but when they get out of the tubing in the cooling device, they cause serious damage to the ozone layer. They were largely banned by environmentalists in the 70's and 80's. However, it's not like leaded gasoline where it causes air pollution every time it is consumed, CFC refrigerant can last indefinitely (at least until some other part of the electronic stops working), it's the disposal of these old units that causes the release of CFCs. My grandma has a fridge from the 50's that still has CFCs and it runs fine.
people aren't willing to pay for quality. If people were willing to live like "then" they could easily afford it right now.
They'd also blow their brains out within a week but that's neither here nor there.
possibly any book that talks about capitalism, people don't create products to improve lives anymore, but to sell.
The quality of stuff in general or the quality of literature and media?
In the case of the latter, Dialectic of Enlightenment
The declining rate of profit was talked about by some fat guy but I can't quite remember his name...mahrl cucks or something
no
Just read anything about planned obsolescence
Pretty much just this and add in a bit of US copyright and patent laws which are slowly influencing the rest of the world (Trans-Pacific Partnership etc.) and you've got the full picture.
adorno
it's pretty simple, if stuff was well designed and could last forever, they couldn't charge you for maintenance or sell you new units. incandescent light bulbs can actually last forever, but they're designed to burn out after a while so you'd keep buying more. one of the stark examples of capitalism stifling innovation.
There's a famous incandescent light bulb called the Centennial Light that's been on for 121 years now.
Mein Kampf
The israelites and Their Lies
At my grandmas house they have a garlic crusher they've been using for 50+ years. Meanwhile I've gone through 5 of them in the last decade because they fricking break all the time
Dice your garlic by hand you amateur
It's an illusion. The only things that were made 50 years ago and are still in use are those that were, by accident or by design, made well.
they used to make things out of metal not plastic junk. metal doesnt break that easy
Like American houses, they are made from shitty materials now, and it's not like bricks are expensieve
Bricks are much more expensive than wood construction. Even just adding a brick veneer is several times the price of engineered siding materials.
In my country you can get a square meter of bricks for around the equivalent of seven dollars
>Are there any good books on why the quality of stuff is worse now?
The quality of stuff in general or the quality of literature and media?
Kek, this is the classic IQfy thread where OP asks for books and illiterates, whose judge themselves wise, diffuse their stupid opinions, lmao
You don't need a book, just apply common sense. It's the same old story: greed and government. Corporate greed, low quality third world electronic components, planned obsolescence, assembly by slave labor. Stupid tree hugger shit like demonizing various materials (Freon being an example relevant to OP's pic) and trying to make shit more "energy efficient" has made buying quality products at any price damn near impossible, as well as the demonization or outright banning of the use of certain chemicals has made various trades like construction and auto body work cost more for an inferior result.
back to IQfy homosexual
For air conditioners and refrigerators specifically, it's because of chemicals called CFCs. Essentially, they're excellent refrigerants, but when they get out of the tubing in the cooling device, they cause serious damage to the ozone layer. They were largely banned by environmentalists in the 70's and 80's. However, it's not like leaded gasoline where it causes air pollution every time it is consumed, CFC refrigerant can last indefinitely (at least until some other part of the electronic stops working), it's the disposal of these old units that causes the release of CFCs. My grandma has a fridge from the 50's that still has CFCs and it runs fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon
people aren't willing to pay for quality. If people were willing to live like "then" they could easily afford it right now.
They'd also blow their brains out within a week but that's neither here nor there.