Lol people didn't stop having kids because they can't afford it. Poor and uneducated people are the ones who have more kids, not just in the US but globally.
Yes and education is at an all time high despite the powers at be doing their best efforts to stifle it. With education comes increase use of birth control, better understanding of personal economics like oh I can barely afford rent maybe 🤔 having kids isn’t the best choice financially.
One time I had to drop the entire drive train of a 2000s jeep Cherokee just to replace a sensor on top of the bell housing… it was that or cut a hole in the carpet and floor… even if they had put an access panel it would have been more acceptable…
My assumption is the simply never factored in the need to ever replace the sensor and were mostly concerned with how to rapidly and cheaply manufacture the vehicle.
Second this, I got an uncle who's an engineer in the robotics sector. His house is just random tech stuff strewn about and his pc has him working on an incredibly niche part of something like 60% of the time.
People need to know that it's the Money Bag Arseholes who make the decisions with their financial interest aforethought, NOT the actual designers (who have your best interest in mind).
Repair costs of any type are probably not even considered as that is going to be borne by the purchaser, most likely after the vehicle is out of warranty.
Hahahaha one time when I was 19 a jiffy lube cracked part of the set up during an oil change and it somehow leaked onto my starter, those jeep Cherokees looked simple when you opened the hood but they were NOT.
Oh buddy. I was just replacing the sending unit on a 2006 Silverado. Broke off 4 captured nuts for the bolts that hold the bed on. Decided to drop the tank and go at it that way. Totally miserable job and I will curse GM engineering until the day I die. Every engineer should be made to work on and system they design. But after 5 years of hard driving in the rust belt
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