If a thing works, it works. Then corporations realized that doesn’t work to keep growing like a cancer. Queue: Make the old thing bad (by enshittification) or pour billions into ads saying no, this NEW thing is what you need now!
It entirely depends. Old is good when it comes to some things, and new is good for others.
You probably shouldn’t use your 20 year old hot water bottle, for example, even if it’s worked for 20 years. Your old boiler might be working, but it’s on borrowed time with each passing year. You don’t need a new phone, but it might do things better than your old one that you specifically like or need. That old chainsaw you’ve been holding onto might well just give up the ghost dramatically some time.
Something working doesn’t mean it’s working optimally. It’s ok to want a better thing, or a safer thing, or a thing more suited to you, or even a new thing for the sake of it.
Its fitting you did the chainsaw reference, I actually had a neighbor that thought his chainsaw was broken so he threw it in the trash. I took it out, PUT GAS IN IT and I am still using it to this day. Put a new chain on for 20 dollars.
I think the whole “I NEED NEW” breeds stupidity.
Yea, having a 60 year old fridge might be cool, but their electricity demand isn’t.
A 15 year old computer probably doesn’t work for most things, even IF planned obsolence wasn’t a think. Heck, in my line of work, a 5 year old computer would be too slow.
Both appeal to tradition and appeal to novelty are harmful. An idea should be evaluated on its own merits.
The seriously damaging part of capitalism is capitalism.
I think it’s a normal part of human nature that you experience all the time without corpo meddling. Have they exploited that urge for new? sure, just like they exploit every human emotion.
Reminds me of how general motors would paint each yearly relefresh of their cars a specific color so that you could tell if someone had the newest model.
Even that small amount of social pressure did wonders for their bottom line.
Totally… Apple would never make new colors on their products for that reason, noooooo. A tale as old as marketing.
definitely I think the general motors thing happened back when the model T was a thing.
Nah the model T was famous for generally only coming in black
https://colorscombo.com/what-color-were-all-of-henry-fords-model-t-cars-painted-from-1914-to-1925/
sorry I should have been more clear, it was general motors equivalent to Ford’s model t, I was just using that to establish time frame
Depends on the thing, and the age of the old thing. I love old cars, but I also recognize that safety and emissions standards and reliability have come a loooong way since even the 1990s.
I’m gonna use my glasses as an example here, I’m very nearsighted…
I got my last official prescription back in 2020, complete with the standard ‘scratch protective’ coating and all. Before I even made it out to the car, the right lens already had 4 light scratches on it, and now after years of wear they’re all scratched and pitted up.
A little over a year ago, me and some other regular visitors to our city park briefly exchanged glasses, just curious how strong each other’s prescriptions were. When I put on the oldest fella’s glasses, it was like they were literally made for me! I asked him if he had a spare pair of old glasses he might be willing to donate.
A couple months later, once he remembered, he brought me an old pair of bifocals made in 1988, perfect match to my prescription! Hell, if anything they’re even better than my official prescription!
Anyways, they were made in 1988… And not a single scratch on them to this day! They sure don’t make things meant to last like they used to…
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Were they actual glass? I think they switched to plastic lenses because they are cheaper, lighter, won’t shatter (but will scratch).
Actually they are plastic, not the newer thinner polycarbonate plastic though, they’re stupid coke bottle thick, but they work great for my vision.
That was actually one of the first questions that came up about them, whether they were glass or plastic, so I took a razor blade to the very edge and shaved off a very small inconspicuous sliver of the edge to test. Sure enough, plastic. Must be that good shit though 👍
You got the bubbles plastic
Hahaha, gotta love the Trailer Park Boys!
haha I’ve watched TPB pretty religiously but I’ve never seen this, it’s excellent
Hahaha! I absolutely had to share, glad you enjoyed it (who wouldn’t though?) 🐱😹
Yep. It’s part of the culture of consumption.
I immediately don’t take a recommendation for entertainment seriously if it’s something that was recently released.
