AmandaI saw this advert from 1956 on Instagram and can’t work out how a fridge from nearly 70 years ago basically has better features than the fridge I own now.
Alex Chaffeei call it “tech rot”: at first products are designed by engineers to help users, but over time the incentives shift to help businesses owners squeeze out more profits and increase market share and the product quality eventually gets worse than when it first hit the market
fridges, printers, telephones (voice calls), web sites, etc are all objectively worse now than in the late 20th century