• village604@adultswim.fan
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      5 hours ago

      People who want it to last.

      That’s a large part of why “things aren’t built the way they used to,” is wrong. People don’t want to pay a lot for appliances now, so they get built with cheap parts to meet that price point.

      There were cheap garbage appliances in the old days too.

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        3 hours ago

        That’s fair. I do suspect those live-forever refridgerators probably did cost a bomb way back when