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[quote=Anonymous]This is a really good piece explaining why appliances don’t last now. I think he misses a few points, though: 1) American demand for ever cheaper products which creates a race to he bottom (see all the crap in Amazon); 2) changes in the steel market leading to the use of lower quality steel and plastic components instead of steel; and 3) globalization combined the rise of the extraordinarily cheap labor market in other areas of the world, which makes it really cheap to just make more and more...which wasn’t feasible when stuff was made by unionized American workers paid a fair wage. https://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/[/quote]
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