Why everything you buy is worse now [video]
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Why everything you buy is worse now [video]
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Re: Why everything you buy is worse now [video]
#2Nothing new nor surprising, but very well presented.
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#3Interesting - didn‘t notice that.
I‘m only buying quality stuff and stick to it as long a possible. Most of my cloth are years old. I’m buying a new iPhone if the one i have doesn’t get any updates anymore, and furniture has to outlive me.
I always thought this is reasonable and that everyone would do it that way: Always having high quality stuff, saving money instead of wasting it by continuously buying cheap things!
Seem‘s like i’m really out of touch with the world.
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#4my complimentary add on to this : "why my whole studio is discontinued and obsolete" :-)
I've found discontinued products in particular (by chance) almost a sign of a product which had tonnes of R&D poured into it, then, was deemed too expensive by the company.
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#5For consumer electronics, i believe the quality and durability is only increasing for the same price. I think this is because the rate of feature increase has slowed down, giving more breath to quality and durability. For example gorilla glass is almost standard, and it improves as well.
On the other hand for clothing, it is clear that the quality decreases, like was shown in the video, because people buy more often. It gets out of fashion very fast anyway. Fashionability is bad for the environment.
For electro mechanical devices, like coffee machines or printers, they suffer from addition of electronic features (like better ui or more features in one device) that mainly tend to add comfort but at the cost of more possible points of failure.
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#6Interesting - didn‘t notice that. I‘m only buying quality stuff and stick to it as long a possible. Most of my cloth are years old. I’m buying a new iPhone if the one i have doesn’t get any updates anymore, and furniture has to outlive me. I always thought this is reasonable and that everyone would do it that way: Always having high quality stuff, saving money instead of wasting it by continuously buying cheap things…
Most people don’t have the option to buy quality goods in the first place, so they end up in the money sink trap. Constantly buying replacements for cheaply produced goods.
It only takes buying the same thing 2 or 3 times before it’s more expensive than the quality options anyway.
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#7Interesting - didn‘t notice that. I‘m only buying quality stuff and stick to it as long a possible. Most of my cloth are years old. I’m buying a new iPhone if the one i have doesn’t get any updates anymore, and furniture has to outlive me. I always thought this is reasonable and that everyone would do it that way: Always having high quality stuff, saving money instead of wasting it by continuously buying cheap things…
No, you are doing the rich man thing; the rich man can afford to buy a $20 pair of boots which lasts 5 years. The poor man can only afford the low-quality $6 pair which lasts a year.
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#8Interesting - didn‘t notice that. I‘m only buying quality stuff and stick to it as long a possible. Most of my cloth are years old. I’m buying a new iPhone if the one i have doesn’t get any updates anymore, and furniture has to outlive me. I always thought this is reasonable and that everyone would do it that way: Always having high quality stuff, saving money instead of wasting it by continuously buying cheap things…
No, you are doing the rich man thing; the rich man can afford to buy a $20 pair of boots which lasts 5 years. The poor man can only afford the low-quality $6 pair which lasts a year.
I know this doesn’t change your point but adding a 0 would make it match reality a bit more.
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#9Interesting - didn‘t notice that. I‘m only buying quality stuff and stick to it as long a possible. Most of my cloth are years old. I’m buying a new iPhone if the one i have doesn’t get any updates anymore, and furniture has to outlive me. I always thought this is reasonable and that everyone would do it that way: Always having high quality stuff, saving money instead of wasting it by continuously buying cheap things…
> keeping a phone if the one I have doesn't get any updates anymore
This is actually a nice way of knowing when to change phone
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, you are doing the rich man thing; the rich man can afford to buy a $20 pair of boots which lasts 5 years. The poor man can only afford the low-quality $6 pair which lasts a year.
I know this doesn’t change your point but adding a 0 would make it match reality a bit more.
And then multiplying it by 2.