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Planned obsoletion isn’t just in our phones in the hardware in just about everything it’s also in appliances. Has anyone noticed the horrid quality of appliances from ge and others. Ovens, hardware, stainless steel all at the same promise. All coating horrible prices. These ovens should cost 50 dollers for how badly they are made. Yet they charge the same price they did years ago. This is like a slow drip.
Welcome to the 1980s!!
This was already very widespread by the 1980s.
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Maybe you got a 2.0 in English….
There is no such thing as obsoletion!
The correct term is planned obsolescence!
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“All coating horrible prices.”
Another incomprehensible sentence.Do you mean the COST is horrible?
Why do you think the price is horrible? Is it because you are buying and not selling?Remember: billig vi tyre. Cheap is dear. Cheap goods cost more in the long run as they don’t last or work as well as quality goods.
Please get someone to proofread your posts and correct your grammar before subjecting us to them.
Yes, a lot of appliances break down right after the warranty expires – and they are built that way. In fairness, the prices are not as they were decades ago. If you compute prices as part of income, you will see that US prices for food and stuff are decreasing over time.
In terms of appliances, you will be better off not buying integrated ones. Buy separate dryer and washer – so when one breaks, you only buy one. If your fridge breaks but freezer is still working – buy 1 or 2 small stand-alone fridges and keep the old one for freezer.
You seem to be conflating a few concepts.
What you are experiencing is the intersection between planned obsolescence, offshoring, and shrinkflation.
It’s rough.I think it was ben Azzai who was thinking Hashem for so many people working hard to make his breakfasts – farmers, traders, marketers …
In our times, thank Hashem for chinese workers putting your phone together, American engineers planning obsolescence so that your fridge will be cheaper to make (and thus cheaper for you to buy in a competitive economy), for those who put money into retirement funds and thus indirectly invest in the most successful companies, making those companies to quickly get capital to create new fancy products for you. Literally, billions of people support your existence. Be grateful, do not complain and apply yourself to Torah and mitzvos. The same way, the cow gets fulfilled by your kosher eating it, the phone assembler gets fulfilled by you learning tosfos on that phone.
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