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Originally Posted by oldsinner111
Not only Mercedes,but everything. Even refridgerators don't last like the ones made in the 60s.
It all boils down to greed.Shareholders,CEO's want to increase profit so they can have cash to spend now.They don't care about their children or future generations.
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OldSinner and I (I suspect) are of generation(s) that remember when a product name meant something. Somewhere, you could find a human being who would take responsibility for it. If not, and you got grief from the product, you never darkened their door again with another purchase.
The refrigerator reference is one I use all the time myself. People still have old beer fridges grunting away in basements and garages, that were probably made when I was in diapers. I see new ones that look maybe five years old out in the trash all the time. Don't get me going on the numbers of small appliances and some not so small (gas barbeques) that go to landfill way beyond their time. It's a disgrace. We are burying ourselves in cheaply produced garbage. Cars are far from the worst offenders.
We have decided, speaking as a collective psyche, that lifestyle and bling trump all. Better to buy more junk now that lasts a few years or that you don't bother to take care of (gas BBQs and lawn mowers left outside in our nasty winters, for example) than buy something durable and take care of it.
The collective mentality of this period will be harshy reviewed when they write history books in an age to come. They will call us the "Plastic Age".
We are no better than the early years of the industrial revolution. Instead of children dying in factories, we send our nasty work overseas and let others work in poverty to support our greed. It's a disgrace.