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Cross posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/69554167

Your toaster dies the second you unbox it. Pants rip on day one. The quality of everything is trash now. This is what bigheaded people call enshittification. Companies deliberately design products to break right after the warranty. This is due to the so-called “Hunt for Infinite growth.” Steady profits ain’t enough. They need MORE, so they skimp, shrink packages, and shove everything behind subscriptions. Infinite growth is a plague, and it hurts your personal finance.

Disclaimer: This video is satirical commentary and for entertainment purposes only. It does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice.

  • InfamousCantaloupe@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Planned obsolescence has been a commercial strategy since the 1920s, it has been picking up pace and is now reaching its saturation point (that we now dub enshittification). The new terms and ways of thinking of it just describe planned obsolescence reaching its shit-peak culmination (we hope, I suspect it can worsen, and it has with the rich oligarchy deciding they can erode democracy with money so we have reduced agency too).

  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    7 days ago

    You can buy better quality, it just costs more. If all you care about is price, it’s a race to the bottom.

    • UroFighter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Sometime you can’t anymore. I bought 2 remote-controlled car for my daughter, including one that was expensive from a reknowed company, both had irremediable problems after 1hour.

      Looked for something higher end that can be played inside the apartment, but there is literally no offer. Only metal replica of high end car but still with crappy mechanism.

      If anybody has a recommendation I’m all ears.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      People seek stuff by volume, not quality.

      But big ticket items like cars and appliances have no quality options any more, and if anything, with cars there is an inverse correlation to cost.