Post #33058

2025-12-05 12:42 UTC

I watched a good video on tool quality. It basically said the exact same old tool is better than the new tool now. But the new tool is priced much much less. When they compared it to a modern tool that was the same price or less it performed the same or better. People just want cheap things and companies want to make money. People need to buy quality and companies will get an incentive to build quality.

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@AA5B@lemmy.world 2025-12-07 17:23

The problem is it’s not really people’s choice. Companies have gotten very good at disguising quality traders and marketing has got very good at muddying the waters. Since this is about tools, I’ll bring up Craftsman as an example. For many years, it was a quality brand accessible to homeowners. But as they changed to be cheaper they still marketed themselves as a quality brand and they seemed like the same price. It was only after the brand value was destroyed, that it became clear how “cheap” the tools had become and people were able to make a legitimate decision to move on

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@123@programming.dev 2025-12-07 22:17

That was also the conclusion of this video on the Speed channel for older version of things vs new one (included tools, shoes/undershirts, etc - I would ignore consumables that expire but they were there for s&g it seems): youtu.be/I4C62HC1HSo

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