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If you lined up a toaster, tv, refrigerator, oven, lawn mower, and toilet from 1959 and compared it to their modern counterparts in an endurance test I can guarantee you team 1959 appliances would grossly outperform.
It seems as if modern appliances are designed to last a few years at best.
Because, if they were built to 1959 standards- quality of materials, and US labor- the majority of the population wouldn't be able to afford them.
Why do you think today's appliances only have 90 day "warranties"?
I'd spend 2-3 times as much for a beautifully designed, well made product I can give to my children.
This is why I buy 1950s era appliances and refurbish them for use around the house.
If you lined up a toaster, tv, refrigerator, oven, lawn mower, and toilet from 1959 and compared it to their modern counterparts in an endurance test I can guarantee you team 1959 appliances would grossly outperform.
It seems as if modern appliances are designed to last a few years at best.
^^^ Planned obsolescence! Because it's instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary.
The rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases.
By the late 1950's, planned obsolescence had become a commonly used term for products designed to break easily or to quickly go out of style, and became a systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, and permanently discontented individuals.
I'd spend 2-3 times as much for a beautifully designed, well made product I can give to my children.
This is why I buy 1950s era appliances and refurbish them for use around the house.
You might! But the majority of the population won't or can't. How's a major corporation going to stay in business with so little volume?
^^^ Planned obsolescence! Because it's instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary.
The rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases.
By the late 1950's, planned obsolescence had become a commonly used term for products designed to break easily or to quickly go out of style, and became a systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, and permanently discontented individuals.
^^^This, planned obsolescence.. Warranty can be as long as 1 year. We just bought a new Whirlpool dish washer that has a 1 year factory warranty.
Fortunately the dryer I bought last year brand new, just broke 2 DAYS before the 12 mo warranty was up and I was able to get it repaired for free. They actually used a soft plastic stem to hold the main dial on!...the dial that gets torqued and turned every day when someone turns the dryer on. If that isn't planned obsolescence, I don't know what is. Now I just have to figure out how to preserve the new dial and plastic stem on the replacement, before that too breaks in another 11 months.
Fortunately the dryer I bought last year brand new, just broke 2 DAYS before the 12 mo warranty was up and I was able to get it repaired for free. They actually used a soft plastic stem to hold the main dial on!...the dial that gets torqued and turned every day when someone turns the dryer on. If that isn't planned obsolescence, I don't know what is. Now I just have to figure out how to preserve the new dial and plastic stem on the replacement, before that too breaks in another 11 months.
Heh. Here I generally prefer to choose appliances with knobs instead of computerised buttons since knobs last better. Guess they have that figured out now too.
Many times people will purchase a cheaper object that is lower quality over a high quality, more expensive object even if the more expensive product is a better value in terms of how many years it will serve someone. People are terrible when it comes to investing. This is because people don't have a lot of money, because they think that when the object no longer works they will be in a better financial situation than they are now or becuase it is a lower risk. Therefore, companies start to forgo quality to provide a cheaper product and in turn also get to sell more units because they fail quicker. Other companies must start doing the same in order to remain competitive. So all of the products become poorer.
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