My kid asked why we don't just fix the old trucks instead of always buying new ones. It hit different.

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Oh man, that's a really smart question. I was just reading about how a lot of stuff is made now so it's cheaper to replace the whole thing than to fix one little part. It's like they design the old truck to be a dead end. Makes you feel a bit stuck, you know? Like we're just on this treadmill of buying new things.

black.beth1mo ago

Right? It's the worst with appliances. My mom's dryer drum bearing went out and the repair guy said a new motor assembly costs more than a Black Friday special. So what's the tipping point where a company decides a product should just be trash after a few years? Is it in the first meeting?

the_uma22d ago

Whoa, wait, wait wait. @bettyk53, are you telling me that the repair guy actually said a new motor is MORE than the whole dryer? That's wild. I would have just assumed it would be a hundred bucks or something, not the whole price of a new machine. It makes you wonder who sits in those meetings and greenlights that pricing. Like, they must know it forces people to throw away a perfectly good dryer just because of one dumb bearing.