Front Load Washer - WAY off Topic

[BrutalNoodle]

I've thought of it this way as well, but the more I see, I believe these companies who were walking that thin line between planned obsolescence and garbage are now actually selling garbage. As regulation becomes more lax, shareholders demand more dividends, and companies are now even balking at paying a Chinese worker a buck a day, the quality of materials used and the engineering/testing is the next thing to go.

Quite pathetic.

When you were young, you saw everything as "the best" or "baddest" of them all.

Of course, that all went flushing down the tube when my father broke the news of reality to me one day. I was still a lad, but he pretty much lay it out - You're looking at the lowest bid. The real money is in maintenance and upgrades.

I didn't quite understand the concept then, but as time passes it hits me, and every time I heard similar notion, I would think of the old man.

 

[PaulMys]

This phenomenon was actually conceived in the late '60's, and its infancy was born under none other than Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon. Not by him per say, as he was clueless, and started this whole "puppet president" situation we have to this day. Nixon was the first president to approve the model for today's ridiculous health care system by giving in to the first models of HMO's. And for great personal profit. (Sound familiar??)

And more to our point, was one of the key factors in opening the flood gates to sending all of our manufacturing jobs to China. Remember him being the first president to visit China? Yeah, I guess that was just a public relations thing.

Right after that, even though I was a young kid, I remember seeing those "BUY AMERICAN!!" bumper stickers. At that time, I was too young to grasp the whole concept.

Take a trip to Detroit today. That was the bastion and backbone of American ingenuity, and strong labor.
It's gone. It's a slum. There are no jobs, hope, or way of life there. They sold it to enrich the already rich, because they can never have enough.

Like Setec, I'm done. Depressed now.