> I think a $500 dishwasher costing $2500 if ordered one part at a time is reasonable.
So the cost of assembly line, robots, power and salaries of workers is -400%?
Why do you feel the need to come with excuses for whats is ibviously a cash-cow?
So the cost of assembly line, robots, power and salaries of workers is -400%?
Why do you feel the need to come with excuses for whats is ibviously a cash-cow?
In any case, you've neglected logistics, which is at least complicated enough that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been stalling out on multiple fronts against a much smaller force (this not to denigrate the bravery or capabilities of the Ukranians.)
But dishwashers are not that expensive that you're stuck with them. Buying new, cost is less than most new appliances and similar to a phone, less than a laptop. The used market is so soft that, even in my LCOL area (with consequently tighter Craigslist market), I bought my 3 year old stainless steel dishwasher for $150. All this to say, you can bail on your dishwasher if someone starts selling one that is extraordinarily better than everything on the market.
As another thought exercise, you have apartment complexes or apartment buildings (working in hand with national or regional builders). These parties have the time horizon, large sample sizes, accounting capacity, and concern for costs to know the absolute best option for appliances in terms of how often maintenance is required and how much it costs. They're a large enough buyer, at least collectively, to constitute a market. Despite all this, the dishwashers in apartments where I've lived or visited seem exactly the same as the ones in friends homes. Why don't apartment complexes use low maintenance dishwashers? My suspicion is that they're complex machines with heaters (highest wear), pumps (high wear), and pressurized water in close proximity to electronics, built to a standard so they can be affordable in every US home.
But please, make it better. I like paying extra money for things built with engineer driven design.
What is it about sustainability that is wrong to you, why is pollution and resource wasting better?
Dishwashers to me seem quite simple (compared to say washing machines; just based on having repaired all my home appliances). No reason a dishwasher can't last a lifetime.
My mother's first microwave is still going, about 40 years old, meanwhile newer appliances last the mandated 2y warranty period then break very soon after.
We've been seduced by shiny new things and it's pathological for our species. Companies have played to it because those interested in only money have taken them over.
We're in for a World of hurt this Century as energy and resources shortages hit, I wonder if we'll learn.
I am honestly amazed at this segway.
If you don't believe that mass production has benefits, you have to come up with some alternative explanation for the 20th century.
My preferred modus would be to buy a current manufacturer, then strip out the high paid execs and minimise the profits in the form of very cheap repairs.
our taxes pay for customs to seize components of iPhones and file charges on behalf of apple for counterfeit goods. If you take your iphone, travel to china, take it apart there, and send to to the US by post, the customs will seize it as counterfeit.
Honest people are going to jail to preserve Apple's profits.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3yadk/apple-sued-an-indepen...
You also probably don't know about part serialisation and other efforts that mean that even if you product a compatiable part, the device will reject it.
This is the case with tractors and phones. I am not 100% up to date with dishwashers.
Why not go disrupt them and put some of those cash cows into your barn instead?
On phones, last weekend I replaced my wife's iPhone X battery with one from Amazon for $18.99 + $1.19 in tax and 45 minutes of very straightforward work. If that $20.18 repair to get an extra 2 years out of the phone is the result of excessive profiteering or protectionism on the part of Apple, I'm pretty sure I'm OK with it and don't need/want government intervention to "fix" it.
I could have sent taken it to Apple and gotten it replaced for $70, which also seems totally reasonable to me for a parts-and-labor repair to get 2 more years of service.