Well, I can 100% agree humans are insane that is for sure. As far as appliances, well our last Kenmore Elite of 16 years was still running fine and trouble free when we sold our house two years ago. Still looked new too, just beautiful. I did replace an ice maker component myself around age 10.
So I won't know how long our new LG will last and hopefully I will outlive it past the last refrigerator of 16 years. Compressor has a 10 yer warranty and is so efficient it uses energy of less than a 100 watt light bulb, closer to 75 watts. In a way, depending on your kWh cost for your electricity they pay for themselves over old units.
We bought our daughter a GE refrigerator a couple months ago as part of a house warming gift and the GE warranty is ONE year on all parts. (GE is now China owned) That is NUTs.
I just dont know considering price and energy savings if today's refrigerators are bad. I mean, after 10+ years we tend to get tired of stuff. By year 12 close to half the population leaves that one behind and moves to a new house. We also must keep in mind government dictates energy efficiency and we are the government. Well hopefully I live long enough to find out how this LG will go.
As far as cars, I would disagree with you. They are vastly more reliable and last far longer than the cars of decades ago. Gosh at one time a vehicle with 75,000 on it was old, transmissions, ball joints needing replacement etc.
However like you say, insane humans just love to load up debt and drive the newest latest over featured automobiles. All the old ones get shipped to countries overseas for resale.
This is only going back 20 years.
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