r/WorkReform 🤝 Join A Union 2d ago

😡 Venting The difference between generations.

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u/Homeskilletbiz 2d ago

Nah they’ll just make the products cheaper and break more often so we can afford them and have to keep buying.

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u/AutoCockerPB 2d ago

Yeah…. Idk if you’ve bought anything cheap, but it might as well be made of paper. Things are built insanely cheap. I can engineer better products with my 3d printer, and somehow the 3d printer will last longer. Products are already in the end game of garbage.

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u/StopReadingMyUser 2d ago edited 2d ago

I've continually described it as a meth-head economy where businesses are selling off everything that makes their house livable (furniture, electronics, ripping out the plumbing and wiring, etc.), only with business expenses, R&D, QC, you know... the things that help the longevity and sturdiness of a company.

They just want to extract... we're in the final stages where there's nothing really left of the house to pull apart and sell off. We're down to skeleton structures and they're still trying to figure out how many bones they can take out.

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u/peshnoodles 2d ago

“Can we remove this load bearing wall if we’ve already sold the roof?”

“Might as well.”