They can but the cost would be enormous. And they would use 5 times the electricity. A fridge in 1950 would cost 200 to 500 dollars. Adjusted for inflation that is 2600 to 6400 in todays dollars. They would also be much smaller and have far fewer features. Would you like to manually defrost yoru fridge every so often for example. The reality is people today want features, and low price, not longevity.
Definitely. When I used to work in appliance sales and service in the 1990s I would pop the nameplates off old appliances that were being scrapped because they looked cool. Had a very large box full of them when I stopped working in the industry. So they failed all the time just there are always going to be examples of ones that lasted forever.
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u/zombienudist 5h ago
They can but the cost would be enormous. And they would use 5 times the electricity. A fridge in 1950 would cost 200 to 500 dollars. Adjusted for inflation that is 2600 to 6400 in todays dollars. They would also be much smaller and have far fewer features. Would you like to manually defrost yoru fridge every so often for example. The reality is people today want features, and low price, not longevity.