The article doesn’t even mention stuff like planned obsolescence or the fact that a lot of new goods end up being destroyed to artificially inflate prices.
The article doesn’t even mention stuff like planned obsolescence or the fact that a lot of new goods end up being destroyed to artificially inflate prices.
I still find it hilarious that Americans will go on and on about how only things made in America last, but cars older than like the 90s are rare on American streets, while cars made in the USSR between the 50s through the 90s are still common in nearly every SR, and still run great. The Lada is nearly unkillable, meanwhile American cars fall apart after just a decade - and cars made after 2008 kill themselves over time. (2008 is when car manufacturers started making every function of the vehicle part of the onboard computer’s responsibility, and those computers can only be fixed by a certified shop with the right equipment, that the manufacturers own the right to remove from the shops at any time)
System of standards, was the key then, and now it’s all about the profit.
Probably the economy has something to do with it. There are parts of the world where you either could have “that” car or no car at all. And if say, transit is not a (viable) option, guess three times what people are going to try doing.
I’m not sure we live in the same world but we have jokes about all those “cars” that they need technical maintenance about once in two-three months. I do remember from my childhood how we ended up multiple times not being able to run the engine during semi-cold winter (ca. minus 15-20 degrees). So I have literally 0 ideas what those perfectly manufactured cars you folks talking about.
German and Japanese cars worked pretty well in comparison, though.