Expensive has never meant good but good usually means expensive. What I’m saying is that people make these comments as if good stuff was replacement by shitty stuff when it hasn’t, they’re just not even considering anything out of their budget…like it would have been
People will complain their $200 IKEA table falls apart but the option to pay a craftsman for a quality table never went away. A good table will outlive you but expect to pay over a grand, though.
No, I addressed that in my other comment as a downside - there used to be ONE option for things but now with so many options, we have to do some research on what is good vs just expensive
This, specifically, has nothing to do with capitalism lol
Competition exists outside of capitalist hellscapes. Shitty craftsmen and shitty goods exist. It always has, there’s just more people making things. You used to only have access to what your local shopkeeper stocked, now you can get stuff from anywhere. You just had to trust them that it was good which it seems you’re assuming was always true.
You have to “waste your time” because you care about having a good quality mouse. My mom uses the shitty $3 mouse than came with her refurbished HP workstation and she has no interest in replacing it.
Picking a (historically) complicated electronic device as an example of how things are worse now certainly was a choice. It’s an increasing niche device, most people don’t even own a desktop.
Ohhh I get it now, you don’t actually have a point to make so you just stop reading after the first line of a comment and downvote.
There are soooo many things about capitalism to shit on but “I have to think about where I spend my money” really isn’t one of them. In any type of society, there will be good products and shitty products. Pretending otherwise is beyond delusional.
You ignored the rest of what I had to say to make an ignorant comment about the first line
The “free market” is indeed broken but how on earth do you figure it was supposed to lead to top quality goods? The market exists for low, mid, and high quality goods.
There really is nothing more to be said unless you want to explain how a different system would eliminate crappy goods from the marketplace. But I don’t expect you actually have an answer to that.
Expensive has never meant good but good usually means expensive. What I’m saying is that people make these comments as if good stuff was replacement by shitty stuff when it hasn’t, they’re just not even considering anything out of their budget…like it would have been
People will complain their $200 IKEA table falls apart but the option to pay a craftsman for a quality table never went away. A good table will outlive you but expect to pay over a grand, though.
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No, I addressed that in my other comment as a downside - there used to be ONE option for things but now with so many options, we have to do some research on what is good vs just expensive
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This, specifically, has nothing to do with capitalism lol
Competition exists outside of capitalist hellscapes. Shitty craftsmen and shitty goods exist. It always has, there’s just more people making things. You used to only have access to what your local shopkeeper stocked, now you can get stuff from anywhere. You just had to trust them that it was good which it seems you’re assuming was always true.
You have to “waste your time” because you care about having a good quality mouse. My mom uses the shitty $3 mouse than came with her refurbished HP workstation and she has no interest in replacing it.
Picking a (historically) complicated electronic device as an example of how things are worse now certainly was a choice. It’s an increasing niche device, most people don’t even own a desktop.
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Ohhh I get it now, you don’t actually have a point to make so you just stop reading after the first line of a comment and downvote.
There are soooo many things about capitalism to shit on but “I have to think about where I spend my money” really isn’t one of them. In any type of society, there will be good products and shitty products. Pretending otherwise is beyond delusional.
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You ignored the rest of what I had to say to make an ignorant comment about the first line
The “free market” is indeed broken but how on earth do you figure it was supposed to lead to top quality goods? The market exists for low, mid, and high quality goods.
There really is nothing more to be said unless you want to explain how a different system would eliminate crappy goods from the marketplace. But I don’t expect you actually have an answer to that.