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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 370672" data-attributes="member: 1061">We made a conscious decision as a society to value quantity over quality a long time ago. Overall, "cheap and replaceable" trumps quality in our economy. Steel and other metals were replaced with plastic in most of our products. We'd rather go to Ikea and buy cheap stuff in a box that we have to assemble ourselves versus going to a furniture store. It's often more expensive to service a broken product than it is just to replace it.Heck, there are a number of "disposable printers" you can buy now. Run out of printer ink? Just throw the printer away and get a new one because they're so cheap, and it costs more to buy the ink cartridges.</blockquote>