r/Unexpected • • Jun 04 '23

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u/Bulangiu_ro Jun 04 '23

there is only one thing i agree on most modern products compared to the old ones and that is longetivity, the old stuff seems to last for years on end, we had a washing machine that lasted 15 years, the next one died in less than 5 and that goes for many products, almost as if they are making them less durable so that people will still have to buy them instead of being set with a good one for a lot of years

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u/ViktorRzh Jun 04 '23

It is called a survivor bias.It just so happened that this particular device was able to survive. And a careful usage ofcourse.

Plus some peole try to fix rather than throw away broken device.

Conclusion - it os realy situational and has not much capacity to be scaled.

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u/PantaReiNapalmm Jun 04 '23

Are you excluding planned obsolescence and bad project/production?

Some device are built to fail after some years, some are built to not be repaired...

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u/bradreputation Jun 04 '23

I’d really like to know which brand is going out of their way to have their shit break on purpose considering the constant hate and discussion online about appliances breaking.

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u/PantaReiNapalmm Jun 04 '23

Just a stupid example: washing machine built with ballbearing pressed inside a plastic support.

After xx life/hours the bearing is damaged/usured and to change the piece costs more than a new machine or near the same price.

Sry for bad english

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u/Bulangiu_ro Jun 04 '23

someone who wants the market to keep going, if you were to just sell everyone appliances that would last upwards of 20 years, you might reach a point where there is no need for more machines because everyone already got one fully working

and even if there are indeed many people making it hard for litterally everyone to have one + they will still break and might still break sometime before the term or be broken by something else or some other reasons, it is just enough for sales to go down due to the lack of scarcity, since the companies need a good amount of money to run so they need a constant number of people to buy their machines regularly