• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    23 days ago

    even fridges within the last 10-15 years are crappy. only the ones from early 2000s, or pre-2000 last a long time.

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      23 days ago

      There were a ton of crappy fridges from back then, too. It’s just that most of them have already died.

      • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        The difference is almost ALL appliances built today are designed to die around the time the warranty expires. And, yes, I realize that’s been a trope for a long time, but now it’s far more true than it used to be. It used to be a joke, because it happened rarely, now it’s not a joke because it happens often.

        Twenty years from now, there won’t be any appliances built today, still running.

        This isn’t survivorship bias. The internet taught us that term specifically to excuse enshittification.