r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dannylopuz • 17h ago

Ruined by Technology This viral post about enshittification is fake

Post image

Why do people keep falling for this?

4.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

231 comments sorted by

View all comments

35

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.

9

u/0b0011 14h ago

I remember watching a video a while back with this same conclusion. They were testing tools from the 70s and tools today. They looked at a crescent wrench from back then and 2 from today. I cant remember the exact numbers but essentially they had one back in the day and it was $20. Now they have 2 options the $20 one and the $100 wrench. The $20 one was obviously shitty and had a big margin of error as well as slippage where as the $100 one was actually better than the old one. It was the same story for all of the tools they tested. The thing is tools used to be way more expensive back in the day because that old $20 wrench would cost the equivalent of $160 in today's money. It is absolutely true that quality is dropping for many things but for many other things they've just added in a bare minimum cheap option and people compare that to the old thing rather than comparing the expensive one.

5

u/TalkersCZ 14h ago

In mind of the people something that costed 30 years ago 20 bucks should still cost 20 bucks.

They find 20 bucks cheap version and they complain about quality.

I went for a hike. Nothing crazy. Forgot my tent. Got one for 30 bucks, was perfectly fine. Probably will detiorate very fast, but that is kinda expected.