Particularly egregious in the United States, where they have such a strong monopoly.

And also why supporting independent shops directly is SO important.

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    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

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      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.