Particularly egregious in the United States, where they have such a strong monopoly.
And also why supporting independent shops directly is SO important.
Particularly egregious in the United States, where they have such a strong monopoly.
And also why supporting independent shops directly is SO important.
yeah and everything kinda crappy. Like just good enough to function but quality totally gone. Construction to. A condo building burned down near me over four years ago with the structure intact but the units and roof being totaly losses. Its still surrounded by construction fencing. Looks pretty much done on the outside but think it looks like studs still through the windows. Insurance fighting is supposed to be to blame but the same insurance will only pay people for a temp place to live for a year. Then anyone who owned one of the places has to pay taxes and assesments this whole time. A schoolbus went into our drive (its not supposed to, it goes into the larger drive of the complex across the street. Ours is to small) and hit a soil retaining wall and its sitting all messed up while the insurance companies drag their feet. We had a pool fall apart while trying to have it rehabbed and it should have been done last year but did get messed up by permits and inspections but all that was cleared up by the winter and almost nothings been done this year. What im trying to say is the us used to be able to build things and get things done. Its like that building in new york. Why is all this so messed up. Because construction workers, teachers, cops, and firefighters don’t all make about the same money anymore and that money for some are not enough to have a “typical” american houseold with a house and some kids and doing decently on one income.
I’ve noticed that as well, buildings don’t seem made to last anymore like I’ll look at new buildings and I doubt they will be there in like 50 years some times, and those cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. There’s a lot of “just good enough for now” quality to things, in stores too. I guess it all comes down to the stock marketification of our economy, all the wall street and investor worship crap, all the attention has been going to the people making it rich doing some easy shit mean while all the hard working people like those you mentioned are getting shit on daily, so it’s very easy to get discouraged I’m sure, you really have to love your job doing those things but now a days a lot of people aren’t taking jobs they love they are taking jobs to pay bills, so shit doesn’t get done right anyways
yeah its the largest failing of the way america works. There is always this louding about efficiency but its a dollar cost efficiency. Quality is given zero concern. When germany/japan was pointed to for efficiency one big aspect is their efficiency was a quality product made efficiently. Not just efficiency alone. Quality was another big aspect. I think most places in the world have had to sacrifice efficiency to compete with the us and now china.