a49cd6 No.379022
It's Not Just Price Inflation Americans Are Suffering From, Quality Of Products Are Going To Shit Too
I've often addressed the dismaying decline of quality over the past 30+ years, for example, The Crapification of the US Economy Is Now Complete: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb22/crapification2-22.html
1) Hyper-globalization, which pushes manufacturers to buy the cheapest components to lower costs. The failure of any one poorly made component renders the entire device useless junk which is dumped in the landfill.
2) Planned obsolescence as the corporate strategy to boost profits in an economy where everyone already has everything. By reducing the quality, product failure is accelerated, and the hapless consumer is forced to replace a device every few years that 30 years ago would have provided decades of trouble-free service.
NOTE: This is why you should seek out older stuff to buy or salvage and learn how to fix and maintain those products!
3) Consumers have been trained to consume, no matter how poor the quality. Tossing stuff in the landfill is wonderful because this gives us another excuse to go shopping.
4) Since global production and distribution is dominated by rapacious cartels and quasi-monopolies, they don't care about the terminal decay of the quality of their product/service. They know we're going to buy their low-quality rubbish anyway because we have no choice, and they know the quality of "competing" (hahaha) products is equally abysmal.
NOTE: I have been saying this for years, America is no longer a free market capitalist country!
Longtime correspondent Bart D., who coined the term Landfill Economy, pointed out a fifth source of decaying quality: resource depletion. It's not just hyper-globalization / corporate profiteering driven cost reductions at the expense of durability; it's also the increasing cost and difficulty of obtaining quality materials and components at any price.
I found it in the term and substance 'stainless steel.'
I own some old and by the standards of the day in the 1970's "cheap" stainless steel knives and cutlery. I use a few of these pieces as garden tools. They lay around in the dirt and weather 24-7 and 365 days a year. They are used for purposes never intended by their manufacturers, uses that they would classify as abuse. And I can pick these items out of the dirt, rinse them under a tap and they come up looking like new. They are shiny, silver and have no sign of rust.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb23/stainless-steal2-23.html
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a49cd6 No.379023
>>379022
And I also own some "quality" stainless steel items that were manufactured in the last 5 years in China. They were not priced in the 'Cheap and Nasty' bracket.
These items do nothing more than live in a kitchen or out under the pergola and get wet with clean water. With Plain water. And they rust. Prolifically.
So it seems that since the 1970s, we have managed to figure out how to make Fraud Stainless at a price point above actual stainless (inflation adjusted).
We are now living in a comprehensive illusion of what is quality. I'm starting to wonder if there are any products being produced today that are genuinely superior to those produced 30+ years ago.
Todays standard grade products would be regarded as Defective in the economy of pre-1990s.
NOTE: Everything will get worst. Anything old you have of quality you should keep and hold onto. It will become invaluable someday.
Tossing all the low-quality goods in the landfill and replacing them with even lower quality goods is now the global model of "growth."
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb23/stainless-steal2-23.html
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53d5c3 No.379053
>>379022
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
higher prices - lower quality has been happening since the beginning of the industrial age.
where have you been?
living under a rock?
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53d5c3 No.379054
>>379023
coca cola used to be 5 cents
and it tasted better
BIG DEAL
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53d5c3 No.379055
I'm amazed that you think inflation is SHOCKING NEWS
seriously, dude…….
"this" is your epiphany?
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53d5c3 No.379056
Killcen:
the man who thought he coined the term "they don't make 'em like they used to" today
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53d5c3 No.379057
TRANSLATION: HOARDER
YOUR POOR DAUGHTER…
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53d5c3 No.379058
NOTE: Everything will get worst. Anything old you have of quality you should keep and hold onto. It will become invaluable someday.
Tossing all the low-quality goods in the landfill and replacing them with even lower quality goods is now the global model of "growth."
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53d5c3 No.379059
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c9166b No.379084
>>379022
And I also own some "quality" stainless steel items that were manufactured in the last 5 years in China. They were not priced in the 'Cheap and Nasty' bracket.
These items do nothing more than live in a kitchen or out under the pergola and get wet with clean water. With Plain water. And they rust. Prolifically.
So it seems that since the 1970s, we have managed to figure out how to make Fraud Stainless at a price point above actual stainless (inflation adjusted).
We are now living in a comprehensive illusion of what is quality. I'm starting to wonder if there are any products being produced today that are genuinely superior to those produced 30+ years ago.
Todays standard grade products would be regarded as Defective in the economy of pre-1990s.
NOTE: Everything will get worst. Anything old you have of quality you should keep and hold onto. It will become invaluable someday.
Tossing all the low-quality goods in the landfill and replacing them with even lower quality goods is now the global model of "growth."
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb23/stainless-steal2-23.html
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536587 No.379145
bumping common sense news
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87fff2 No.379156
>>379057
What is happening here is you are revealing yourself as a delusional, hyper sensitive faggot vying for some random anons attention.
>uh, get a life bro
>tsk, get a girl bro
>heh, get a job bro
>I’m not angry right now, I’m actually laughing. My heart rate isn’t increasing
>masked-crying-wojak.jpg
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a49cd6 No.379186
Every facet of society has gone to shit. Prove me wrong.
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a49cd6 No.379216
I guess it doesn't matter what Americans think anymore.
I guess it only matters what other nations think.
I guess America was sold out to virtue signal.
That's why we lost.
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df4de7 No.380512
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df4de7 No.381029
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c9166b No.382065
If I had listened to pro-government gatekeepers years ago I'd likely be dead today. Thank God I never trusted them.
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df4de7 No.382378
Too bad patriotism is punished while treason is rewarded today.
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570c01 No.382787
If I had listened to pro-government gatekeepers years ago I'd likely be dead today. Thank God I never trusted them.
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df4de7 No.383059
Glad I prepared for the collapse of the Western world.
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aacdb0 No.383375
Glad I prepared for the collapse of the Western world.
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a49cd6 No.383749
Too bad patriotism is punished while treason is rewarded today.
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df4de7 No.384100
bumping inspirational news
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116f6c No.384741
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33c6d0 No.384981
If I had listened to pro-government gatekeepers years ago I'd likely be dead today. Thank God I never trusted them.
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05761f No.385054
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703464 No.385105
Glad I prepared for the collapse of the Western world.
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