Here's a question for y'all: How can this be fixed?
Once upon a time, "quality" was a deciding factor in consumer shopping and there was real pressure on lower quality manufacturers.
Now most manufacturers clearly have no incentive to provide quality. In my experience this goes hand in hand with consumers accepting ever lower standards and, in my experience, little self-esteem. By that I mean that consumers put up with all manner of abuse, all manner of cheapness, all manner of self-abasement. They seem unable to learn, unable to do without, unable to properly consider longer term consequences.
How might this get fixed and turned around?
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