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Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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like I went to taco bell and they didn't even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don't get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also everything breaks in five years at best. Doesn't matter how much you spend, basically everything is shit quality minimum viable products.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why I never buy anything with lithium batteries, and my career is a computer repair technician. When the batteries die, they are often irreplaceable even by an expert. The entire inside of so many "smart" and wireless devices are drowned in industrial adhesive and can only be destructively disassembled. Watch ifixit's videos on air pods teardowns, they are impossible to repair.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. I won't buy anything that isn't repairable unless it's like a one time need

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lol I wish I had that luxury.

I do actually

Wood working tools

[–] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully on most laptops the battery is easy to replace. The keyboards though...

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah the keyboards are almost always rough. Sometimes if the laptop is old enough you can simply undo a couple screws and the keyboard will pop right out. Nowadays they are all riveted in so you have to buy the whole lower assembly and gut the machine and transplant it to the new assembly.

It always hurts to tell customers that fixing a single broken key is like 200-300$ (often on cheap laptops).

[–] SelfHigh5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Planned obsolescence keeps us consuming.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I also think there's a general lack of QA. Whether it's a bug or a feature, they're trying to push things out so fast now that shit breaks even if they don't intentionally plan obsolescence.

Planned obsolescence is definitely a modern travesty though. It really ought to be illegal