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Queer Like The Slur

"the kmart shoes don't last, not like back in my day"

There has been no day ever when a pair of shoes that costs less the a loaf of bread has lasted more than 20 minutes.

8 Oct 2024 at 3:45 | Open on aus.social
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Queer Like The Slur

I cannot tell you how many times I've had this conversation:

Customer: You can't get [thing a] anymore, it's all the cheap crappy [thing b] now! All I want is [thing a]! I can't find it anywhere! I've been searching high and low for [thing a] but it just doesn't exist anymore because everyone's selling this awful flimsy foreign [thing b].
Me: We sell mostly [thing a] they're this whole wall, we do stock just one version of [thing b] because it's half the price
Customer: *grumbles a bit then buys thing b*

I cannot tell you how many times I've had this conversation:

Customer: You can't get [thing a] anymore, it's all the cheap crappy [thing b] now! All I want is [thing a]! I can't find it anywhere! I've been searching high and low for [thing a] but it just doesn't exist anymore because everyone's selling this awful flimsy foreign [thing b].
Me: We sell mostly [thing a] they're this whole wall, we do stock just one version of [thing b] because it's half the price

8 Oct 2024 at 3:52 | Open on aus.social
violetmadder

@coolandnormal

No. It is not the same.

Companies back then had nowhere near the sophisticated propaganda and effective built-in obsolescence that they've since spent generations and untold billions finely tuning.

Many previously reliable brands have been bought out and deliberately enshittified, coasting on their previously established reputations while making increasingly worse shit.

Plastics crumble and break down in ways metal, glass, wood, and natural fibers never dreamed.

And a week's wages go less and less far every day.

@coolandnormal

No. It is not the same.

Companies back then had nowhere near the sophisticated propaganda and effective built-in obsolescence that they've since spent generations and untold billions finely tuning.

Many previously reliable brands have been bought out and deliberately enshittified, coasting on their previously established reputations while making increasingly worse shit.

8 Oct 2024 at 6:51 | Open on kolektiva.social
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