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SigSeikoSpyderco t1_jdubtmc wrote

In the 50s you had a big focus on quality at high cost because people remembered how important it was to have things that did not wear out in the depression era. Today we are far more focused on buying based on economics than for quality. No, not a lot of things we buy at Target or Lowe's will last 40 years, but it's so cheap that it doesn't really matter.

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Quail-a-lot t1_jdx73f1 wrote

The 50s had loads of junk too! But we mostly only see the good shit due to survivorship bias. And the 20s had kind of a crazy amount of what we would today easily call fast fashion.

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