Durability of consumer products and frugality dreams So…
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Durability of consumer products and frugality dreams
So far I only think of GUNS (AK-47, Colts, S&W etc...), wooden furnitures, houses built out of bricks etc... as only things that can last decades and even centuries with no maintenance whatsoever.
And we want to colonize Mars and the Moon? With what? Fragile plastic and composite constructs that decay with radiation and thermal shocks? And need work on them every few days or weeks as stuff will keep breaking. The last Moon lander didn't make it to 4 days on the surface on the Moon in 1972 and the astronaut's suits were at their breaking point from the grinding of the Moon dust.
And this is the Peak of Civilization? When we walked on another heavenly body.
When the average new car you buy has built in obsolescence and a plastic transmission oil pan and when a laptop is meant to die after a few years and a cell phone last only 1 we are truly cooked if something Civilization changing happens.
Being frugal is one thing and fantasizing about less consumerism, but the pros think about the bathtub reliability curve and fault tree analysis of complex physical and social systems to truly identify failure point components and make them durable and redundant in a mathematically formal way.
To paraphrase what happens in War.
My point is frugality seems good and great and I want it but it seems limited to only a few items like food in practice. Buying an older car for a lifetime is possible too but those are running out. For the rest I see enshittification of products engineered to defeat frugality.
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So far I only think of GUNS (AK-47, Colts, S&W etc...), wooden furnitures, houses built out of bricks etc... as only things that can last decades and even centuries with no maintenance whatsoever.
And we want to colonize Mars and the Moon? With what? Fragile plastic and composite constructs that decay with radiation and thermal shocks? And need work on them every few days or weeks as stuff will keep breaking. The last Moon lander didn't make it to 4 days on the surface on the Moon in 1972 and the astronaut's suits were at their breaking point from the grinding of the Moon dust.
And this is the Peak of Civilization? When we walked on another heavenly body.
When the average new car you buy has built in obsolescence and a plastic transmission oil pan and when a laptop is meant to die after a few years and a cell phone last only 1 we are truly cooked if something Civilization changing happens.
Being frugal is one thing and fantasizing about less consumerism, but the pros think about the bathtub reliability curve and fault tree analysis of complex physical and social systems to truly identify failure point components and make them durable and redundant in a mathematically formal way.
To paraphrase what happens in War.
My point is frugality seems good and great and I want it but it seems limited to only a few items like food in practice. Buying an older car for a lifetime is possible too but those are running out. For the rest I see enshittification of products engineered to defeat frugality.
#finance
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