Awesome essay. But look, this is primarily due to the State, it’s monetary inflation and it’s war against public consumer goods in the guise of environmental regulations. Do not discount this. It’s real, and it’s pervasive.
I recently went through a two month process to replace an A/C coil from a top manufacturer, a simple product. Wh…
Awesome essay. But look, this is primarily due to the State, it’s monetary inflation and it’s war against public consumer goods in the guise of environmental regulations. Do not discount this. It’s real, and it’s pervasive.
I recently went through a two month process to replace an A/C coil from a top manufacturer, a simple product. Why? Because, not China, but all such manufacturers are moving their lines to the new products as environmental regulations are putting the “older” ones into forced obsolescence. They are forced to do more with less. The net effect is anti-green. Waste, useless products, less real wealth, and as you point out brilliantly in this essay, social degradation.
Inflation then rears its head as an entirely monetary phenomenon, and leads to inevitable need by suppliers to cut cost. The ill social effects of guaranteed inflation are legion and understood by only 0.001% of the population and even less so by economists. But there is one! I urge all to read Jorg Guido Hullsman’s magnificent “the Ethics of Money Production” and see what has been obvious all along.
Our culture has degraded too, outside of all this, but I’m not convinced people don’t want well made things (yet), but simply have this issue of affordability and constant attack from the State’s nudges on all of our products.
Lastly if I may add to the rant, what rent seeking behavior from private industry? How about cars? Do people appreciate that if you put a modern gas engine in a 1985 Honda Accord, that thing might get 65-70 mpg? And of course that car would be illegal today and yesterday because “crash safety”, a set of standards entirely defined by industry to kill foreign competition and its lighter cars. But the State did their bidding in a classic example of fascism that we pretend isn’t fascism.
Awesome essay. But look, this is primarily due to the State, it’s monetary inflation and it’s war against public consumer goods in the guise of environmental regulations. Do not discount this. It’s real, and it’s pervasive.
I recently went through a two month process to replace an A/C coil from a top manufacturer, a simple product. Why? Because, not China, but all such manufacturers are moving their lines to the new products as environmental regulations are putting the “older” ones into forced obsolescence. They are forced to do more with less. The net effect is anti-green. Waste, useless products, less real wealth, and as you point out brilliantly in this essay, social degradation.
Inflation then rears its head as an entirely monetary phenomenon, and leads to inevitable need by suppliers to cut cost. The ill social effects of guaranteed inflation are legion and understood by only 0.001% of the population and even less so by economists. But there is one! I urge all to read Jorg Guido Hullsman’s magnificent “the Ethics of Money Production” and see what has been obvious all along.
Our culture has degraded too, outside of all this, but I’m not convinced people don’t want well made things (yet), but simply have this issue of affordability and constant attack from the State’s nudges on all of our products.
Lastly if I may add to the rant, what rent seeking behavior from private industry? How about cars? Do people appreciate that if you put a modern gas engine in a 1985 Honda Accord, that thing might get 65-70 mpg? And of course that car would be illegal today and yesterday because “crash safety”, a set of standards entirely defined by industry to kill foreign competition and its lighter cars. But the State did their bidding in a classic example of fascism that we pretend isn’t fascism.
I have noticed how many "green" things are not really green at all. It's the virtue signal that counts, not the actual benefit to the environment.
We shouldn’t buy into it cancel the green culture it’s crap anyway