When we were a young couple just married, no kids, we bought a used Kenmore washing machine from a refurbisher that did it as a hobby. I think we paid $50 for it.
It was old and scratched but it worked. It was probably at least ten years old when we bought it.
We had it for another ten years before the transmission finally broke.
We then bought a brand new Whirlpool that didn’t last ten years before it rusted out.
Then a GE. Same thing.
Now we have a LG Front loader.
Just replaced the drain pump for $17 at ten years, and it still goes on............
Planned obsolescence.
It’s the epitome of hypocrisy that democrats/leftists/greenies whine about the environment and yet don’t say a thing about stuff that is not made to last (Or that is made to not last) or be repaired any more.