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What's the cheapest thing you had bought that by the end of its usefulness made you say "wow, this was worth a lot more than what I've paid for!" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine... My Xbox 360 slim only costed 129 euro back in 2012 and to this day still work like brand new, you would think that the disc drive would stop working but no. Never had the need of open it or clean it's insides. Still great, I just don't use it anymore since I feel it's outdated and loading speeds are better nowadays.

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[–] CaptSneeze 19 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I sometimes wonder how much of the “power efficiency” modern appliance manufacturers trumpet is completely annulled by the fact that they have 30% the useful lifetime of their less efficient ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (7 children)

30%? You're overestimating the lifetime of modern appliances.

The refrigerator my grandfather bought in the 1940s has outlived 7 others purchased later, and the old man himself. It's still chugging along in the basement of their house, 80-some years after it was built.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

And thousands of refrigerators bought in the 1940s have been in landfills since the 1950s.

[–] froh42 14 points 6 months ago

Yeah, people also say how old cars were better than modern ones, but that's only driven by the fact that all the broken ones are scrapped for a long time now. In fact, modern cars have much longer lifespans than the old rust buckets.

See "survivorship bias"

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