Reply To: Plastic is the future!

[Wolfie65 1281xp 0]

One can blame the material for being weak in the first place.

We have become used and desensitized to inferior quality and worse service across the board.

Examples: The Schrack brand, Bakelite-type rotary phone I grew up with in the 1970s was hardwired into the wall, about as portable as a brick, never needed service or repair, never dropped a single call, never needed ‘updating’, reception was always crystal clear, even to overseas, worked perfectly for at least 17 years and would probably still work today if rotary dialing was still supported. Today’s Big Brother tracking- and spy devices masquerading as ‘phones’ are an unreliable, glitchy mess prone to failure under real world conditions, last maybe 2 years if you’re lucky and the few that do are so obsolete after those 2 years that they might as well be broken.

Speaking of the 1970s, I remember very clearly that Nutella hazelnut paste actually tasted like hazelnuts back then, wasn’t too sweet and when you stuck a spoon into a (glass) jar of Nutella, the spoon would slowly fall over. Today’s pretend-Nutella is almost disgustingly sweet, much thicker – the spoon will remain rigidly upright – and if you want any hazelnut taste, you’re going to have to imagine it.

The list of similar examples is literally endless.