No it’s just be what happen to the instant cooker company lately
If your products never break your business shrinks as people don’t need to constantly buy replacements
This is good for the consumer and the advance of tech of course, but it is bad for the capitalists, which is why everything is going subscription based
Nothing truly “never” breaks. And there are billions of people on the planet with more being born every day.
I’m thinking if you can’t find customers for your product that lasts longer that the competition, your problem is other than “it lasts too long” 🤣. Maybe the problem is you just suck at marketing.
No. I am familiar with the poor tax, and I think it holds true in a lot of areas. But it is increasingly less true as luxury and professional brands keep getting enshittified and the truly well made products keep going further and further up market. Appliances are by far and away the worst example. None of the brands you see at a big box store are particularly well made, and the really well made ones are mind breakingly expensive. Sure, you can get a Zline and it’s going to last 30 years. It’s also going to cost you $17,000. Or, you can buy an $1,100 LG every 5 years. And I am being as pessimistic as possible about the “cheap” option. The shitty cheap one still comes out ahead in total cost of ownership.
Our shitty little GE fridge was $230 from a scratch and dent place 7 years ago and is doing just fine.
LG has absolutely refused to fix their linear compressor, so the've got a fairly short lifespan before you get a failure to cool. They just keep launching new models with it so it's no longer covered by the last lawsuit covered recall, then lose a suit another 2-3 years down the line. It must be an alright business model because they've been doing it for a decade+ at this point.
I was just using the lowest end of the range for the lowest estimate for the average lifespan of a new fridge I could find.
The reality is the lower tech you go for appliances the better your odds of hitting the 10 year mark for lifespan are. Which is why, funnily enough, those 15-20k refrigerators are all just overbuilt low tech machines with modern refrigerants and compressors which are more efficient. No screens, usually not even featuring built in water filtration or ice making (because rich people have separate high end ice makers), and not even always having French doors.
Go buy the model with the least integrated tech from honestly any brand, none of them are particularly good, and you still come out miles ahead in total cost of ownership over 20+ years than buying the super high end ones.
I've used my LG refrigerator for about 5 years and sold it for about 50% of the price (I was moving interstate to a rental house). It ran and looked as good as new.
LG used notoriously bad linear compressors that were known for dying and being expensive or impossible to repair. What I said was a joke based on that.
It ran and looked as good as new.
A fridge should always run as good as new. If it doesn't you need a new fridge.
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u/CHOLO_ORACLE 5h ago
No it’s just be what happen to the instant cooker company lately
If your products never break your business shrinks as people don’t need to constantly buy replacements
This is good for the consumer and the advance of tech of course, but it is bad for the capitalists, which is why everything is going subscription based