I was educated and trained to be a corporate tech worker, but had cognitive dissonance basically since day one. It really took about 15 years to start crawling out of that mindset and world to get to a place of slightly higher consciousness about how I should be living.
Part of that learning process was a lot of DIY grunt work renovating my old house, and now several building projects upgrading my "new" home and property. As part of that, I started working on the old beater pickup truck I bought last summer.
The bed rusted out, and I was planning to replace it. I've slowly acquired the tools and skills to do that, so just this past weekend, I pulled the bed off and started to inspect the frame, brake and fuel lines, and exhaust.
Corrosion eats up the components of cars relatively quickly in Northeast Ohio because of our wet and snowy climate and the copious use of road salt in the winter and cars are engineered to be disposable crap. It'd be pretty trivial and not much more "expensive" to use materials that aren't subject to corrosion so a car or truck, even with a steel frame, could last for decades. Wear components would still need to be replaced, but everything else could last essentially for the life of the driver and beyond.
Back in the 70'sand 80's there were businesses that did undercoating to preserve car frames--but that rubberized undercoating sucked and actually rusted cars out. Maybe a more comprehensive business that modifies and maintains vehicles so they could last a long time would do well.
Anyway, the motive to "make money" versus doing useful and valuable things is the basis of crapflation. Similarly, the training of "consumers" to make bad choices over and over and over again, and to be governed by emotion and whim creates the appetite that drives the system.
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