sous-merde@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-214 hours agoIn the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new onemessage-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1107arrow-down1message-squareIn the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new onesous-merde@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-214 hours agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agoI think the opposite is going to be true. One thing I noticed when I moved recently is that’s it’s getting cheaper to throw out perfectly good stuff and then buy it again rather than paying to have it shipped long distance too.
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours agoWow It also reminds me that it was apparently cheaper to destroy most of the military equipment when leaving Afghanistan than rapatriating it.
I think the opposite is going to be true. One thing I noticed when I moved recently is that’s it’s getting cheaper to throw out perfectly good stuff and then buy it again rather than paying to have it shipped long distance too.
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It also reminds me that it was apparently cheaper to destroy most of the military equipment when leaving Afghanistan than rapatriating it.