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@blinken @lindawoodrow @argv_minus_one @screw_dog wow this. Giant neon sign with this on it. This is the truest shit said so far. Survivorship bias in manufacturing. Everything we have in 2024 from our nannas was "made to last generations"... of course the fuck it was. The test is built into the premise. We are now generations later and the few of nannas 7000 items that we still own are the few that were made to last generations. 3 comments
 @coolandnormal @blinken @argv_minus_one @screw_dog I don't know about this take. I remember both my grandparents homes. They were all poor, working class. My grandad was a night watchman. My Nanna was born in 1908. Her home, from when I remember it in the early 1960's was much smaller than homes now, and much more sparsely furnished. I have the kitchen table, my sister has the dresser, and six chairs that have not survived were all the kitchen furniture. 1/3 @coolandnormal @blinken @argv_minus_one @screw_dog The gas stove survived but was eventually sold. The lounge had two big club chairs that my mum still has, and a sideboard that my Nanna inherited from her mum, and my mum still has, along with some big vases that stood on it, and a hallstand. 2/3 |
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@blinken @lindawoodrow @argv_minus_one @screw_dog it's like we took all our grandparents' stuff and stepped over a magic bridge that only purple things can go over. At the other side we looked at the few things we had left and said "wow, they really made everything purple back in nanna's day, gee they just don't make everything purple like that anymore" as all our grandparents' other stuff goes floating away down the river.