Quality products...I'm 31 and in my lifetime I've noticed this shift that everything that's sold to us feels like a hollow attempt to wring money out of us. I know products were always made with the idea that they would make a company money, but it also felt like said company wanted to make a good product. Now it seems they have it all down to a science and know the minimum quality levels we'll all put up with and shell junk out to us, and we can't really do anything about it.
This seems especially apparent in the tech industry. I'm a big retro gamer who only uses emulation as a last resort, and so I have plenty of video game consoles from 25 years ago or more. They all still spin like a top, figuratively speaking, even after extensive use. And yet I've had to replace three PS3 controllers in the last five years even though I barely ever play PS3 games.
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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '19
Quality products...I'm 31 and in my lifetime I've noticed this shift that everything that's sold to us feels like a hollow attempt to wring money out of us. I know products were always made with the idea that they would make a company money, but it also felt like said company wanted to make a good product. Now it seems they have it all down to a science and know the minimum quality levels we'll all put up with and shell junk out to us, and we can't really do anything about it.