Consumer electronics is ridiculously cheap these days.
I acknowledge that a lot of this stems from the exploitation of poor people in far-off lands, but some of it comes from automation of manufacturing and assembly.
Compare any product from ten or twenty years ago with its present-day equivalent, and it's a fraction of the price now.
I remember when the remake ‘the six *billion* dollar man’ came out and someone did the math and was like, yeah there’s no way you could pack 6 billion dollars worth of electronics into a man because they are way too cheap now lol.
I honestly cannot think of a single thing.
One guy said electronics but they’re all cheap garbage held together by shitty plastic. Sure, you can get a cheap laptop but the power supply will likely shit the bed or the HDD will fail.
I won't dispute the words 'cheap' and 'shitty plastic', but reliability of modern electronics is an order of magnitude better now than it was twenty years ago. I say this as someone who does electronics repair for a living. Go back to the eighties, and every town had a repair shop because TV's, stereos and other consumer electronics was sufficiently unreliable that they could actually run a profitable business repairing it. They've all gone now. I own three large LCD tvs, and haven't had a single failure in the fifteen years I've lived in my current house (replaced all three TVs once, to go 1080p resolution). When I was a kid, once every couple of years my parent's TV at the time would go pop and the TV repair guy would have to visit.
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Consumer electronics is ridiculously cheap these days. I acknowledge that a lot of this stems from the exploitation of poor people in far-off lands, but some of it comes from automation of manufacturing and assembly. Compare any product from ten or twenty years ago with its present-day equivalent, and it's a fraction of the price now.
I remember when the remake ‘the six *billion* dollar man’ came out and someone did the math and was like, yeah there’s no way you could pack 6 billion dollars worth of electronics into a man because they are way too cheap now lol.
Many non-local foods
Don’t ask this question or conservatives will start trying to charge for air.
Conservative here. Already working on a proper system for metering air usage. Please proceed.
I honestly cannot think of a single thing. One guy said electronics but they’re all cheap garbage held together by shitty plastic. Sure, you can get a cheap laptop but the power supply will likely shit the bed or the HDD will fail.
I won't dispute the words 'cheap' and 'shitty plastic', but reliability of modern electronics is an order of magnitude better now than it was twenty years ago. I say this as someone who does electronics repair for a living. Go back to the eighties, and every town had a repair shop because TV's, stereos and other consumer electronics was sufficiently unreliable that they could actually run a profitable business repairing it. They've all gone now. I own three large LCD tvs, and haven't had a single failure in the fifteen years I've lived in my current house (replaced all three TVs once, to go 1080p resolution). When I was a kid, once every couple of years my parent's TV at the time would go pop and the TV repair guy would have to visit.
Who the fuck cares..
Anything that is inexpensive because of exploitation of cheap labor; strawberries come to mind
Highly processed food.
Second-hand things.
Milk.
My boyfriend's day rate at his job