> What am I missing?
Likely a disrespect for a living wage for a common craftsman, and a misunderstanding of what quality goods actually are.
Certainly a lot of kids here survived on cheap $25 jansports, but did the people making them?
Likely a disrespect for a living wage for a common craftsman, and a misunderstanding of what quality goods actually are.
Certainly a lot of kids here survived on cheap $25 jansports, but did the people making them?
I got a Tom Bihn Synapse backpack for around $200 in 2017 that I've traveled to many countries with and has been through I think way more than a kid going to elementary school. It's still going strong today.
It was made in a US factory with workers being paid good wages. $400 is a luxury/captive audience/conspicuous consumption price point.
$450 for an equivalent bag could be explained by things like cost of living differences, but the randoseru described in the article are smaller and made from less expensive materials. The design is arguably a little more complicated, but the price still seems high for what you're getting.
Craftsman also use to make each nail by hand. Looks like kids getting saddled with heavy 200 year old bag designs whose function hasn't updated with the times.
I mean, I do that anyway as a hobby, but I don't owe it to anyone.
However, that works both ways. It's wrong to say someone is "disrespectful" and "misunderstanding quality goods" because they don't want to get their kid a $450 bag instead of a cheaper, still-durable one.
But lets just say that I exist within the FANG dystopia where at any moment I can be wrangled into a meeting with a half dozen people, that if you actually consider the salaries, headcount, and time, racks up to hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars burned. For the takeaway that the modal should be fullscreen, or that we are dramatically adjusting our "design system", or whatever may have been so mission critical. Real tangible goods.
But perhaps what I do is worth more, I mean, we are talkin' computers here! we are the true craftsmen!