we live in a world of consumerism, now more than ever. everything is about buying and having the latest in everything and as a result the quality of the things we buy is gettin worse and worse and the products arent getting much cheaper.
as an example, i had to change the tyre on my mums car but we didnt have a jack- well, we found one in the car but it was so confusing and flimsy-looking that we didnt bother and borrowed one from my boyfriends grandad. it was very old fashioned. its basically a solid bit of some kind of metal, very heavy, nice shape that you place under the car and turn the circular handle with a screwdriver or something of the sort in the hole. it takes a bit longer than a modern jack but at least it worked and was easy to use and it was definately solid- there was no way it could have broken (not that a jack is meant to break). our modern jack had no appearance of a jack and was made of part metal, part plastic with a random spring amongst it.
although alot of modern products arent confusing and are there to make life easier, they are very bad quality and quite often break- laptops, new phones, dvd players for example. compared to computers, old phones and vcrs.
clothes and shoes too are made extremely cheaply and sold pretty expensive (for the quality) and they really dont last. of course this is all so you as the consumer buy and buy and buy.
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