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Here's the thing about "signaling to the industry with your money": They will take it and not give you shit.
Pay 30$ or $300 for a drill it's still made in China from plastic and planned obsolescence.
Underwear is no different.
Voting with your money works. But only when there are good options to vote for.
There are a couple BifL sock makers, but no BifL underwear makers. That’s the problem. If someone made loose-fitting stretchy aramid boxers with a drawstring that lasts 1+ lifetimes, people would pay $100/ea for them.
Pay cheap and you get cheap. Pay more and sometimes you get fat better quality. Unfortunately, you can also get cheap with a larger mark-up.
I dunno, Makita and some Milwaukee tools are absolutely worth the money, especially if you're willing to buy into their battery ecosystem.
With both those brands, buy brushless. I've lost count of the times I've had to change brushes on both brands of drill. At least Makita makes it easy to change them and you don't have to split the whole drill to do it.
On the other hand, I've never changed brushes on my 25 year old Ryobi, and it's put in a hundred times as many screws as the other two put together.
You've never bought a $30 drill, have you?
I use my Makita drill a significant amount. Right now I'm using it instead of a hand crank on my case trimmer (for reloading ammunition; I'm a moderate volume shooter). I've had it for nearly a decade. Yeah, I've replaced the batteries twice, and now have the higher capacity ones. But the drill is still holding up. The Festool Rotex disc sander I've got is easily the best sander that I've used.