I disagree, lots of things are much cheaper and worse.
Clothes are much cheaper and far worse. Power tools are generally a lot cheaper bit also built to break.
Houses are somehow more expensive AND lower quality though.
Lower quality? Modern houses here (Canberra, Australia) typically have all the energy stars (compared to my '70s place’s half a star), are much larger and are proof against termites
A 2026 house beats mine in every respect
That’s the only good thing about them. Other than that, I wouldn’t say they are constructed better, but I don’t know anything about Australian house construction. In America, you can find older homes with old growth forest woods in them that you can’t simply have in a house anymore because the trees simply don’t exist in circulation for obvious reasons.
I’ve started throwing out socks I bought 4-5 months ago for developing holes. Same brand I’ve been buying for 15+ years and used to be able to go 18-24 months before needing replacements.
Contemporary fascism can’t even make the proverbial trains run on time.
Socks are built to lowest cost. If you want good socks, get wool or cotton from a small company
It’s really quite depressing and infuriating. I’m finally financially in a good spot to afford better quality clothes. I want to buy something that’ll last me years and years. I don’t like to participate in fast fashion. So I looked up which brands people recommended. Turns out everyone’s in agreement that even the expensive stuff from previously well respected brands is now overpriced crap that falls apart within a year.
I’ve got clothes from 20 years ago, some even much older from my mom that holds up better than things I bought a year ago. I hate it, fuck late stage capitalism.
I always buy secondhand these days for this reason unless it’s from a brand that still has its reputation in tact.
Absolutely. I’m admittedly a bit of a clothes horse and it really used to be that, within reason, there were brand names that used to be a reasonable proxy for quality. But now I’m looking at shirts from the same place I bought them from years ago and the fabric is thin to the point where it’s actually sheer.
Soon you’ll have to pay for the privilege of communicating with a human instead of an LLM chat bot.
Edit: I realize I need to specify because I forgot to add relevant context.
They will call it “Priority Support” and it will incur an extra fee.
That’s too easy. Surely we could squeeze in another middleware to maximize profit?
Introducing:
“Drink a verification can to confirm you’re human”
…Who is getting payed shit wages for the privilege of having that job
I don’t event want to talk to another human for free. Why would I pay for it.
Well, you’re talking to one now!
Is that Popeye as a child?
This comment actually doesn’t make sense since there’s always been a price to communicate outside of face to face (postage, telephone, ISP, etc.). I get the spirit of it, though.
My bank recently switched all of its tellers with a row of ATMs inside the bank. I think this is kind of what they’re talking about.
My bank is strictly online and have never had to pay extra (for now) for any kind of extended service nor ever had to speak to a rep. I kinda like it that way.
I haven’t had to pay extra yet, but I am anticipating that being a thing soon. But I do have to drive further to get to a bank that still has a notary.
I communicate way more face to face than in another way. So if I read communicating, I’m not thinking of calling, emailing, letterwriting or anything not face to face.
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