We’re tired of useless bells and whistles, just give us products that work and last a long time. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
Many consumers have yet to grasp how vulnerable they are to increasingly routine digital-component failures.
One of the greatest myths about “free markets” is that enterprises create products and services to meet the needs of consumers. That sounds nice but that’s not what happens in monopoly-cartel dominated economies like ours. In monopoly-cartel dominated economies like ours, what actually happens is the monopoly / cartel (i.e. a handful of quasi-monopolies that completely dominate their sector) limit their offerings to the most profitable products and services and force customers to buy them by making it impossible to find better-value options.
Monopoly-cartel dominated economies like ours are rife with intentionally shoddy quality products and services because durability is anathema to ever-higher profits. By designing products and services to fail–planned obsolescence–or become obsolescent by other means–your product is no longer supported–monopolies / cartels force consumers to constantly replace failed or timed-out products.
The other mechanism favored by monopolies / cartels is immiseration: make the product or service so miserable to use that the disgusted consumer is forced to upgrade to minimize their suffering. This is how monopolies / cartels manipulate the innocent-sounding “consumer choice:” you have a choice between suffering with low-quality products and services, or somewhat less suffering by paying more.
If you want products and services that actually work and are durable, prepare to pay 10X more. If you want kitchen appliances that function longer than a few years, no problem, just pony up $35,000. (A real-world number, believe me.)
In other words, durability and quality service are now reserved for the top 5%. Everyone else has the simulated choice between “unbearably low quality” or “bearably poor quality.”
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
Making things too complex usually doesn’t end well for manboons.
Check out Hecho en India for melts right out of the box zero quality control or a good gut busting laugh.
Boeing engineers all up in the house. (s/)
Grammaws buy that stuff at the Dollar Tree for Christmas and the kids see how quickly it falls apart.
The glorious landfill service economy.
Do you want me to serve you some ice cup with that item you just bought for next year’s landfill crop?
We’re all in this together, comrade.
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Imagine how big the market is for simplicity and does what it supposed to … like a late 50 or 60’s Chevy. Build those not Teslas.
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Buy quality second-hand, frequent e-bay (not a plug for their services) or your local Marketplace and repair, refurbish and refinish. I have two refrigerators purchased in the late 1980s (in use about 5 months a year), only one of which has required a small repair of $100 Cdn in nearly 40 years.
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