Modern consumer goods have dramatically shortened lifespans compared to historical durability: a 70-year-old refrigerator still functioned while modern refrigerators fail within 10 years; a reclining bed motor broke after 1 day; a vintage blender lasted 70 years while new blenders last 3 years, representing effective tenfold inflation in per-use cost that CPI never corrects for.
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“I just put a 70-year-old refrigerator out to pasture it still worked...70 years from now there will be zero 70 year old refrigerators that still run probably 10 years from now there'll be zero 10-year-old refrigerators that run because the average refrigerator has the life expectancy of a fruit fly”
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Markets Overvalued by 150% as Dishonest Metrics Hide the Coming 'Catastrophic' Collapse: Dave Collum— Kitco NEWSCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:42:10 PM
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