Very true. It is about what they can profit from right now. If you make a product that last a long time then that means to the bean counters that you could have designed it with cheaper parts .People think it is about getting you to buy another washer but it really is about making it as cheap as possible now. I can design a machine to last 20 years but it will cost 4x as much and consumers live in the present when they shop. Washer A on sale for $499 Washer B on sale for $1999 Both look the same on the outside to the consumer.

It may seem like they want you to have to keep buying a product over and over and they build in failure, but that isn't how it works .Quality goes down when a corporation moves in, they answer to stock holders and are bound to produce profits at all cost and stock holders want returns now, not in 5 years when a customer has to buy again. In 5 years someone else will be running the company or stuck with figuring out why sales are poor. If putting plastic gears vs metal gears results in 5 cents more profit it will be done, not because they want you to buy again when it fails, but because they get that money now. If you want quality look for smaller companies products, they have to rely on future business more than large corporations.

Having managed a warranty repair center I can tell you this will not work. Companies will do what we were told to do, put your returned product on the shelf and let it sit there until you either give up on expecting it back or we tell you that it doesn't fall under warranty for reason xxxx.

Trump is using the same argument ISP use to implement usage based billing. You use more so you cost us more. Contact ? read the fine print ? What fine print ? Oh, wait a minute, there , we just added it. You didn't agree to the new terms ? Go with another provider then. What ? You don't have another provider , so sorry, guess that means we have you where we want you . Only Trump forgets that unlike ISP users , amazon can choose to not only switch providers, they can create their own .

Coffee addicts without coffee would result in the worst crisis the world has ever seen and coffee drinkers know this ! Programmers would sit at the keyboard repeatedly pressing delete, and getting annoyed by the guy cursing out loud next to them who also has no coffee. IT would keep trying to plug in the same ethernet cable in the same jack upside down resorting to cursing it and how it never listens. Call center workers would be heard scolding callers for talking so loud and being informed how rude it is for them to call so early in the morning. Workers in factories on the assembly line repeatedly putting the same screw in the same hole only to learn the part wasn't supposed to have a hole there. Teachers calling students by the wrong names and wondering if I locked the door at home and why aren't those kids responding ? A chain reaction of traffic accidents would occur caused by the sleepy drivers crashing into the panicked drivers who are late because without the coffee they can't get going.