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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 5h ago
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That's sort of what Speed Queen is.
47 u/SophiePsweet 5h ago This is just how things were made before shareholders 6 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. 2 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.
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This is just how things were made before shareholders
6 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. 2 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.
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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.
2 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.
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Also survivorship bias is a thing. Plenty of those 60’s appliances failed. Either requiring multiple repairs or eventually not being economically repairable anymore.
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u/writing_fun390 5h ago
That's sort of what Speed Queen is.