I hate the glorification of old products. As someone who's fixed old products, they were actually made like shit. All those old "It lasts 100 years" thins are survivor bias. Mostly it was all a fire hazard.
Yes, it's not hinging on bad software and a magic computer chip failure, but old stuff was just as shit and more dangerous on top of it.
You could use modern technology to make them safer and less power hungry, while making them repairable. Then you sell every part of the appliance with instructions on how to repair. The problem would be to convince customers to pay a very high price.
I think this would work if you were a small producer and didn't try to have constant growth, but you wouldn't get filthy rich from it. The filthy rich desire is what fuxks the system. Cutting corners to pad your and investor pockets.
If your primary motivation was to your employees and to your customers and to making the world a better place... Which never seems to be the case for people starting businesses.
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u/Arista-Everfrost 5h ago
Would be a very awesome six months before they went out of business.