• silentbob@literature.cafe
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    1 day ago

    Why are appliances shit nowadays >:( i bought a house with 20-30 year old appliances that work fine, but decided to start upgrading so I bought a new washer and dryer. The new machines dont work nearly as well and I know they’re not going to last even 10 years. We’re already having issues with them 4 months later.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Partly it’s survivorship bias.

      20 years back my family got a new house.

      The wisdom then was same as now, they don’t build em like they used to. Within 5 years the stove stopped working and a year later the air conditioning went out. However the rest of the original stuff is still going and the replacements have lasted fine too and now are the prime examples of what people will point to to say things lasted longer back then.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago
      • they are often “cheaper” then what you would have paid in the 80s and they are built to that price
      • they are more efficient, which means every thing has tighter tolerances and thus more likely to break
      • they are more complicated due to the above which means more to break
      • with the above efficiently they use way less water but in my experience that means they clean worse