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Originally Posted by Wormius
I am just questioning why you are bringing up a hot water tank that was never mentioned.
Anyway, your’s is a sweeping statement. Stuff still lasts if you properly maintain it and don’t buy the cheapest thing possible.
There has been crap made all the time. You’re just imagining the past through some rose-coloured glasses.
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His quote was that his house is from 2017 and not that old yet he has issues occurring now that aren't expected. Given the age of the house, I am suspecting his hot water tank may be nearing EOL as would a lot of appliances.
This is a systemic corporate strategy that has been deployed across the board to continue to extract more and more dollars from consumers. This goes for virtually all businesses and industries. Things have gotten so bad that the EU recently passed laws stating that appliance manufactures were required to have parts available for 10 years post new model introduction. The old game of selling a 2000 Euro fridge and not having a part 4 years later proved old.
I am not some old guy who thinks of the good old days, I am in my 30's but I've seen what happens with things. As soon as you see how things have been engineered to actual break down on purpose, the sooner you realize how badly we are being taken advantage of.
An old is gold strategy for a lot of things really does apply from a cost perspective. Some things may be more energy efficient but cost significantly more from a repair and maintenance perspective. We are not that far removed from men doing a lot of repairs on their own cars in their garage to modern day mechanic shops (not dealers) not being able to afford some of the newer software systems cause of costs. Some of the diagnostic tools for new cars today will run a basic shop a couple hundred grand to keep up to date for a couple of years.
People will argue the above points constantly with me but corporate executives brag about it on earnings calls. They literally provide financial guidance & hard numbers to back up what they are doing. "New product introductions and innovation resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue increases and upgrade cycles. Changes in X product has resulted in an ARPU increase of X"