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• jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Survivorship bias

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  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Contemporary appliances actually do fail more often, and earlier, than their predecessors. They have added a bunch of extraneous things to what was a very simple, stalwart, design. These additions have drastically increased the complexity of their designs and created many fold more points of failure than there used to be. It isn’t so much that the manufacturing is sloppier, or that the materials aren’t as good, though in some ways that is a contributor, just not the main one.

    If you by a recently manufactured fridge like the following, you will get a fridge that will last decades if you do the minimum to keep it in good condition.

    www.amazon.com/…/ref=sr_1_39?crid=IAU5IJE3MQNB&di…

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That fridge, in that color occupied a similarly wood paneled kitchen for me growing up. I got a little sweaty when I saw the picture, wondered who’s been in my old house.

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• maxinstuff@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “And I will eat your children”

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see your refrigerator and raise you a freestanding oven. The one with coils.

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• erp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only available in harvest yellow, burnt sienna, olive, and white. Upgrade yours with some simulated wood grain accents to match your station wagon for a reasonable price. Don’t leave it outside in your vacant lot where kids might play inside. Be nice to the Sears appliance department salesperson. They really want a promotion to the vacuum cleaner department so they can buy their kid a high-fidelity 8-track cassette this Christmas.

  I’d keep waxing nostalgic but it will never buff to a nice sheen these days. My parents got a toaster as a wedding gift and it was still in daily use when I went off to college. Appliances nowadays are junk.

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  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How much of that is also survivorship bias. Why is it that if appliances were better back then people ended up buying new ones? Most people tend to only buy new appliances and furniture if the old one breaks regardless if there’s a new model. At least that has been my experience with the vast majority of people I’ve known at more than an acquaintance level. Most people aren’t privileged enough to be able to afford new stuff just cause.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have had mine for going on 10 years now

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