[HN Gopher] Why everything you buy is worse now [video]
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Why everything you buy is worse now [video]
Author : mikhael
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-09-16 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| st-keller wrote:
| Interesting - 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.
| otikik wrote:
| 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.
| culopatin wrote:
| I know this doesn't change your point but adding a 0 would
| make it match reality a bit more.
| Vecr wrote:
| And then multiplying it by 2.
| st-keller wrote:
| Maybe, but are they rich because they do it, or the other way
| around? Buying quality stuff is possible without being rich:
| Most of my friends in school had their fourth walkman before
| i had my first one (worked for 30+ years btw).
| IMRC21 wrote:
| > 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
| st-keller wrote:
| And it's fun too: The new phone is usually way better than
| the old one! The only downside is, that for 2 out of 4-5
| years, the quality of my fotos are not state-of-the-art.
| toasterblender wrote:
| [dead]
| dartos wrote:
| 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.
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| It only takes buying the same thing 2 or 3 times before it's
| more expensive than the quality options anyway.
| an_aparallel wrote:
| my 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.
| coderspirit wrote:
| Nothing new nor surprising, but very well presented.
| nuancebydefault wrote:
| For 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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