they replaced the compressor (only due to a class action suit compelling them to), but I expect it will die prematurely again anyway
I keep thermometers in the fridges and check them all the time
an independent appliance repair guy told me changing brands won't help much, they are all junk now and he mostly does installations instead of repairs
I responded..."even Bosch dishwashers?" to which he replied that I was probably thinking of Bosch from the 90s
He got a couple years out of it.
He did end up finding one. Allegedly the part was redesigned, but what they meant by that was thicker foam tape.
We just replaced a 30-year-old GE with a Whirlpool, so far so good, but we don't expect another 30 years out of it.
This was like when Apple replaced the defectively soldered GPUs on just-out-of-warranty MacBookPros... with the same defective GPUs. In my case, it gave me almost one year to transfer to another model.
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As for refrigerators, my kitchen design has two refrigerators, in case one is down for repairs/spills/CostCo. The one that's about to die is the newer model.
This really shouldn't shock anyone, it's a bit of the status quo for appliances, printers, toys, you name it. Planned obsolescence is real and going strong.
Take this with a grain of salt. Repairmen only see the failures and are very skewed by survivorship fallacy.
Sure, that's the value of their advice. You want the appliances that they rarely see.
Reviews on their 600 CFM range exhaust hoods, though, are all over the map. Smaller bits like that seem even harder to get a good read on.
Make MBAs illegal.
Should we blame individual MBAs, or the governments that create the market / regulatory environments that make such choices rational (or even necessary for survival)?
E.g., governments could alter consumer-protection laws to make it financially unwise for a manufacturer to sell devices likely to fail in the first 10 years.
It is a virus that eats reality and turns it into money.
If humanity is to survive, MBAs have to be outlawed and banished from any form of administration.
Draining everyone, that is what they exist for. Tax evasion, rampant corruption, loss of privacy, mass surveillance, ecocide, regular mass layoffs, low wages, perpetual war, greedflation, etc. Behind every problem, a MBA.
Without MBAs, we would be living on Mars. Instead, MBAs are marsforming earth.
Even if we outlawed MBAs, we'd still have a business environment in which companies that maximize their profitability potentially outcompete more customer-centric companies.
A profit-maximizing strategy potentially gives them more money, which in turn lets them lower their prices, ramp up faster in newer markets, etc.
I don't think it matters much whether or not people have MBAs. Market dynamics will exist regardless of whether we teach people about them.
I think your real complaint lies elsewhere in the system.