I think you might just have forgotten how many workers faught and died to bring us those things. They were not given, they were the result of what began with the luddites. The world’s first arial bombardment from airplanes was bombs dropped on striking US coal miners.
Now those at home machines are designed to be replaced every 8-10 years max, are filling up our landfills and poisoning our environment, and even starting to spy on us in the mean time. Black lungs coming back. We forgot what all these gains cost, and were handing them back bit by bit.
When I sold my old apartment it still had the original appliances, more than 20 years old. A year prior I ordered a part for them directly from the manufacturer and changed it myself.
You just need to pick a brand that offers support long term. Hint: it’s not going to be the cheapest one.
Goes without saying, in the new house we bought the exact same brand for almost everything. Don’t want to use the “spy” functions? Don’t connect them to the internet, you’re going to have a dumb machine as before. I for one enjoy the chance of getting notified when it’s done or preheating the oven one the way home.
No workers fought and died for washing machines. It was 20th century “tech Bros” who created them, and were adopted in communist and capitalist countries alike. Luddites (old and modern) are just afraid and cause overall harm just to save their own skin and not having to learn a new skill.
I think you might just have forgotten how many workers faught and died to bring us those things. They were not given, they were the result of what began with the luddites. The world’s first arial bombardment from airplanes was bombs dropped on striking US coal miners.
Now those at home machines are designed to be replaced every 8-10 years max, are filling up our landfills and poisoning our environment, and even starting to spy on us in the mean time. Black lungs coming back. We forgot what all these gains cost, and were handing them back bit by bit.
When I sold my old apartment it still had the original appliances, more than 20 years old. A year prior I ordered a part for them directly from the manufacturer and changed it myself.
You just need to pick a brand that offers support long term. Hint: it’s not going to be the cheapest one.
Goes without saying, in the new house we bought the exact same brand for almost everything. Don’t want to use the “spy” functions? Don’t connect them to the internet, you’re going to have a dumb machine as before. I for one enjoy the chance of getting notified when it’s done or preheating the oven one the way home.
No workers fought and died for washing machines. It was 20th century “tech Bros” who created them, and were adopted in communist and capitalist countries alike. Luddites (old and modern) are just afraid and cause overall harm just to save their own skin and not having to learn a new skill.