Back in this one’s day, before they invented downhill, and we hadn’t evolved legs yet, and there were no roads, only broken glass…
This one had to travel to and from school uphill, both ways, pulling oneself over broken glass with their tongue, all in the snow because it was also an ice age.

That having been said, the downward trajectory of product quality is noticable, even if one only has taken snapshots recently.

Those of us who recall the previous century saw it in the latter third there, but also this entire sad century has seen the process continue and often worsen.
There is excellent money to be made in shoving out a shoddy product that requires constant maintenance and repair. Some industries just take a few moments to realize that.

Now, if the industries weren’t rife with this love of making things that barely work, it wouldn’t hold up, people would just focus on the quality products and leave the trash in the dumpster…
And that’s why higher production value and tighter finished product associations are rapidly gobbled up or bullied out by the feces-mongers.

In some cases, there’s a tidy tax wrote off for buying and shelving a quality product.

Keep that in mind if anyone is ambitious enough to break the current socio-economic system and build something else.

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