To me it’s been interesting how manufacturing and consumerism has evolved.
There has never been better, higher quality, longer lasting, more powerful automobiles than the ones made now.
No one expects to own the same automobile until they grow old, they aren’t expected to last, however modern ones last longer than the old ones ever did.
Houses were expected to last for generations and even inexpensive houses were well built with solid
wood doors, 3/4” oak
flooring with crawl space etc.
Now large McMansions are very poorly built, with hollow
core doors,
aluminum frame windows that are screwed on the outside of the building, they are framed to min standards, inexpensive shingles, and are wired to min standards, no 20 amp outlets here, and built on concrete slabs often with the
plumbing set in the concrete.
However they will have whatever is in the latest fashion now, granite countertops or whatever, but under that
cheap contractor grade carpet is an unfinished concrete floor.
It seems that size and flash overrides quality, because what sells, is what people want, and it would seem the desire for quality isn’t as great as it once was.
I can’t explain it, perhaps our Father’s knew and understood quality and knew it when they saw it, and we don’t?
So why are automobiles such high quality and our houses and other things not?
Remember the American car of the 70’s? Good lord what junk.
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