olympiadis wrote:
I think it's planned obsolescence by the sock makers. Curse them.
They keep production costs as low as possible and do not care for quality. Child labor in poor countries is cheap and makes what looks like a sock, but give it a few weeks and the holes have consumed it.
Same with everything. We're a throw away society, and that's because things are built to last their warranty and not a month longer.
Things in the past were built to last and be repaired. Things now are built at the lowest cost possible. Look at old buildings like churches (outside the U.S.) compared to new builds.
They make things so it gets them the most money possible. Production is cheap, the things break, we have to pay for repairs or replacements. It is absolutely a plan and it's so wasteful it pisses me off. We can't continue this.