why don't we have quality appliances??

[@Jeff-tu8le]

I sell appliances and the first thing I tell customers, especially older people, is that I’ll be seeing them again in about 5 years because appliances don’t last anymore

[@alextasarov1341]

That’s what happens when you have to compete with appliances made in China

[@LuElv1]

Its interesting to me how much context shapes perception around a material, since your disdain for stainless comes from its ubiquity but in a country like mine is still reserved to upper class.

[@briemme]

Yes!! I think about this a lot. Ubiquity is the big turn off, I think.

[@jfwfreo]

I think that so much of the shift in what we can buy (not just appliances but everything) can be traced back to a shift (sometime in the mid to late 20th century) in the way Wall Street worked. Public companies had to change from caring about the long term future to only caring about what will make the share price go up in the here and now which is why there has been this shift towards products that don't last as long, products that feature some form of ongoing revenue stream (e.g. subscriptions, micro-transactions and consumables) etc. Making a high quality fridge that lasts 20 years or more isn't going to bring the revenue you need to keep the share price going up and the shareholders happy.

[@Crushanator1]

I put patterned drawer liners on my stainless steel dishwasher and fridge. Now they look great and I don't even have to buy a new one if I want to repaint the cabinets in a few years.

[@PrathameshJakka]

interesting video but keep the text and images for a longer duration on the screen please

[@Capitanvolume]

The cost of the high quality appliances would kill sales. The products from the 50s were very expensive compared to today. I saw a sears ad from the 50s advertising chainsaws. They cost 1200$ inflation adjusted. You can get a good chainsaw at home depot for half that

[@Kevin_Rhodes]

Truth. My grandmother bought a Maytag washer and dryer right around the time I was born. She was still using them 50 years later, with only a couple minor repairs along the way. But for those incredibly basic, water and energy-inefficient appliances that didn't actually clean clothes as well as modern ones, she paid the modern equivalent of about $5K. You are better off as a consumer buying a new pair for a grand every 10-15 years. I think the trick to longevity today is to stay away from the fancy bling, and buy fairly basic but decent quality appliances. They won't last 50 years, but they will probably last 15-20. I happen to like stainless steel though. I don't get her gripes. It goes with anything and everything, and is timeless. Though I would prefer to have the option of paneled refrigerators and dishwashers as is the norm in Europe. But that is *stupid* expensive on this side of the pond. I do really like the Samsung Bespoke line with easily replacable Samsung-supplied panels though. Then you can be a bit more custom and change it up if you redo the kitchen.

[@francoamerican4632]

@kevinrhodes335 a new front load washer isn't going to last 15 - 20 years, it's going to last 5 - 7 years (if you're lucky). The front load washer that we purchased in 2005 lasted 14 years. The one that we purchased as a replacement lasted 3 years almost to the day (and the door boot had to be replaced at 1-1/2 years). Both were Whirlpool washers.

[@Kevin_Rhodes]

@@francoamerican4632 All depends on what you buy and how you use it. As I said, buy the simple ones with less to break. And usage matters of course. My grandmother was not doing 10 loads a day in those things. Some people are nutty - my sister-in-law would do three loads a day for just her and my brother... And ultimately, the cost for a machine that would last 50 years isn't really worth it. Those relics still worked, but they cost a fortune in water and electricity to run, didn't actually clean all that well, and caused more wear and tear on the clothes compared to a modern machine. So replace every 10 years for the same amount of money in the long run. My current front loaders at my two homes are about 15 and 8 years old, zero issues. And the 15yo one was the CHEAPEST one I could find at the time. GE, I think. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.

[@user-hm5zb1qn6g]

@@Kevin_Rhodes ?? Modern washing machine don't clean shyyytt. Mine will not fill with enough water to cover all the clothes in the drum so I end up doing each load twice.

[@Coromi1]

@@user-hm5zb1qn6g Yeah, I had to laugh. My washing machine does wash fine, but I have to press an extra button for longer washing and and an extra button for additional rinsing. It's like I had to tell it to do a propper job every time.

[@alexhughes4077]

Wait, what are the other materials to use in the kitchen? Is there a viable way they could come back into popularity? What are some quality items you like? Where do you see kitchens being in the future? I really liked the concept of this video, but it feels a bit unfinished.

[@lilsprugga]

.Once there was a court case whereby a group of shareholders in a company sued the company for caring about the environment, and the court said, yes, a company's raison d'être is to make money for the shareholders, and not to consider society or the environment. There's your problem. It was a case in the USA but people around the world took notice.

[@TheRogueX]

Actually no, courts regularly uphold the fact that corporations don't have to maximize shareholder value.

[@briemme]

I'd believe it! "Shareholder primacy" is taken to such an awful extreme here in the US.

[@hiredgoon4269]

I really like your video, but damn, the text is gone so fast! Could you leave it on screen for like half a second longer? Every time I just barely miss some text, I have to go back 5 seconds to attempt pausing to read it again.

[@inHaze]

Something about your thumbnail caught my eye (and it seems a fair amount of other people) and I felt highly compelled to check out the video, even though as a lifelong apartment dweller this topic doesn't concern me much. That being said, you seem pretty cool and some of your other videos resonate with me a bit more so here is a like, a new sub and a bit of interaction to hopefully boost the algo in your favor a bit more!

[@briemme]

thanks so much! I really appreciate it!

[@johnrehwinkel7241]

My fridge breaks, I repair it. My design æsthetic is "mad scientist". So I really do kinda want a DeLorean.

[@tugger]

getting eeked out by stainless steel is a mood lol

[@marluncar]

I gotta say, the DeLorean was a dog. you'd be lucky to do 88mph. it was very much a design object.

[@elfsatyr]

what a great video!! i never even saw the connection with the delorean till now lol! i wish our current economic climate could lead to less purposeful obsolescence, but really that’s more of a dream than anything 😭

[@freezerlunik]

@7:48, "trickle down economics, SHCMOO SCHMEIN (?), and fast cars"... Can anyone fill me in; I am ESL )

[@Peertje304]

Can't figure out what this is supposed to censor either😔

[@neversimon]

shmoshmain = cocain

[@bluegorillacookies]

Stainless steel finish isn't the reason appliances don't last. It's over use of cheap plastics, low quality, and collaboration between the major appliance corporations to design them to fail. They need to get the crap sued out of them. It's ridiculous.

[@thecactusman17]

Disney hated things like unions and City councils. He wanted a top down corporate structure that controlled the daily lives of every citizen in EPCOT just like Walt Disney Corp controlled its employees. His kitchen user was the 1950s housewife starting her day with the kids, doing the household chores and ending her day in her husband's bed. The decorative functions of the mid century kitchen were about pleasing the head of the household from the cheap materials to the ruggedness and easy repair of mass market home appliances. Consumer design instead tended towards reality: fast, efficient, effective and cheap in the widest variety of applications. Which satisfied the same ultimate customers just as well. A recent YT video was released dealing with how cultural disconnect has ultimately destroyed multiple "world changing technologies" like mosquito nets, widely available basic PCs, and water pumps. That's what ultimately happened to mid century appliances - disconnected marketing firms created vaguely workable substandard solutions to real every day problems and were pikachu-faced _shocked_ that working families and professionals alike instead chose functionally brilliant over decorative form.

[@churblefurbles]

It was a better vision than todays discard culture where we import replacements.

[@jodypagano469]

I adore you and really enjoy your videos. I look forward to them!!!🎉

[@hiredgoon4269]

This was a great video. Please make more like this!

[@LeetHaxington]

Hey wait a minute that epcot city looks a lot like midgar in final fantasy 7

[@kylebuffington7673]

Very interesting video! Was surprised to have seen it come from a smaller channel. Keep up the good work and may the youtube algorithm look upon you kindly!

[@anderstermansen130]

because saving this planet and climate doesnt apply to selling products. Thats why people sell crap to you every second year, than quality every ten years.

[@TheRogueX]

The DeLorean isn't a terrible car, unlike the Cybertruck. It just had a cocaine-addled CEO at the helm.

[@palimdragonmaster3k]

It's funny, I was just thinking about how Reagan ruined everything today

[@churblefurbles]

No fault and believing the dems on amnesty really did it.

[@user-hm5zb1qn6g]

#plim: if thats' what you believe, you have brain damage.

[@StoneSailsSculpture]

There is a myth that old things lasted longer. This is absolutely not true. Cars from the 60s for example, cannot run nearly as long as modern cars today. Even Ford has improved. The perception exists because compared to today, they can easily be completely rebuilt. So easy even you could do it in your garage. And many do even today. But today when you can drive a car three times as long without a rebuild well why would you? And DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON RUST. Older cars are so prone to rust that they will literally rot away before a modern car will. Especially with modern road conditions. Also, when it comes to design colors etc. We have a limited pallette so to speak because tastes change. And for example stainless steel is much easier to match to a kitchen when you change the look of the kitchen then say... pastel pink. If you have a stainless kitchen you can paint your kitchen any color and it will work. You cannot do that with a pastel appliance kitchen. If you move into a house with a lime green kitchen and you dont like lime green, guess what, its much more expensive and harder to change that kitchen then your taste. So you are either stuck with a kitchen you hate, or junking an entire kitchen. Because newsflash. Its going to be much harder to unload your weird yellow fridge then it will ever be to unload a fridge thats stainless and matches pretty much any aesthetic.

[@Coromi1]

The alternative to stainless steel appliances are paneled appliances, not pastel pink ones. And German cars from the 80s really lasted long.

[@Kruzhh]

Good job on the thumbnail!

[@user-unfound33]

Cheap Chinese imports, Plain and simple.

[@gavinjenkins899]

No people didn't have more buying power in the 1950s. It's pretty easy to look up inflation and wages and see that inflation-adjusted wages are higher now by quite a bit per hour of work than in the 1950s. That includes median (Elon Musk is not throwing it off), and even minimum wages.

[@Coromi1]

Middle clas families could live on one wage instead of two. So a salary did have more buying power.

[@gavinjenkins899]

@@Coromi1 Nope, BOTH household and individual real (adjusted for inflation) incomes are MUCH higher now than in the 1950s. I don't remember which is more higher, but both measures are substantially better. The actual difference is they were willing to live without a washer/dryer, without computers, internet, netflic, their houses were built way worse out of cheap materials and were death traps in any fire or earthquake, they only had a few sets of clothes usually, they cooked way more than us and saved on food, and so on. They lived much more poorly than we do now.

[@gavinjenkins899]

@@Coromi1 Another example, if they had hobbies they had way less stuff for them. For example I do photography. I own like 28 cameras and probably 100 lenses and darkroom equipment etc. People I talk to who did it in the 50s talk about saving up for one camera and they used that for years, with like 2 lenses if they were lucky.

[@gavinjenkins899]

@@Coromi1 And when they got cancer they just died, not got 100's of thousands of advanced medical care to save them...

[@Coromi1]

@@gavinjenkins899 You might be right.

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