r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dannylopuz • 17h ago

Ruined by Technology This viral post about enshittification is fake

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Why do people keep falling for this?

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u/TalkersCZ 17h ago

It could be very well true. (EDIT: I know this specific one is not true, but the point is different)

And I am pretty sure you can find on Alibaba or some similar chinese site tons of products, which are terrible quality.

The thing is, that today you have options in different price ranges.

You can buy a pan for 10USD. You can buy pan for 100s USD.

But you cant expect 10USD pan to be same quality as a pan, that costed 10USD 50 years ago.

Same thing with these soldiers. If you buy 3D printed plastic knockoffs from cheap plastic from China, you cant expect it to be same quality as those before.

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u/Shienvien 16h ago

The bigger problem is trying to find out if the $100 pan is $100 because it's better, or because the markup is 19x higher than on the $10 pan.