Making the profit is what has brought down the quality, but there is still a market for quality. It’s mainly in Japan and Europe though. I’m blown away by how much better the quality of clothing is in Europe. High Grade smoking pipes head straight to Japan, at huge prices. High quality vinyl is still being pressed in Japan and Europe – here it’s custom reissues that start about $40 and can go right off the charts. Housing and electronics and everything just seems more and more like cheap s**t to me, but that’s just to keep it affordable. Our cars pre 87 are great deals for the most part and a lot of well cared for older things seem to be the best ways to find quality. Wonderful old mechanical film cameras can be found for a song compared to some cheap plastic POS digital junk. Soon quality will mean Made in China just as it became Made in Japan. There’s some real fine medical equipment still Made in Germany, but we quit making Packard’s a long time ago. Buy it, use it, throw it away, buy a new model – it’s the US way – this is the last generation that will accumulate useable good to pass down. That’s the old world way of accumulating wealth, and I think we’ve lost it.

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89 300E
79 240D
72 Westy
63 Bug sunroof
85 Jeep CJ7
86 Chevy 6.2l diesel PU

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius