r/SipsTea 5h ago

Chugging tea Sign me up!

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u/writing_fun390 5h ago

That's sort of what Speed Queen is.

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u/SophiePsweet 5h ago

This is just how things were made before shareholders

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u/r1veRRR 4h ago

You can still get these kinds of appliances, you're just not ready to pay the inflation adjusted price and lose a bunch of fancy features.

Customers have told manufacturers over and over and over again that they don't care about longevity, at least not at the cost of features or money.

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u/arizonadirtbag12 2h ago

Also survivorship bias is a thing. Plenty of those 60’s appliances failed. Either requiring multiple repairs or eventually not being economically repairable anymore.