Local stores do still exist to a smaller extend but are usually very expensive in comparison to the flood of options you find online. The market naturally developed around weaker purchasing power, at the cost of crafting quality.
Experts also call this the “programmed obsolescence” of things but they just miss the point entirely.
quotingLife used to be so much easier when it comes to choice. You needed a chair or a desk - you go to your local furniture store and buy whatever is available.
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Now, you want a desk or a chair - you go research the top 10. Look at their pros and cons. Compare materials. Evaluate build quality. Go on YouTube and search for reviews. Spend a week confused because you thought you knew what you wanted but YouTubers are telling you something else. Then you search product websites add to cart. Leave. Come back in a week and go through the top 3 choices. Search YouTube again comparing the top 3 and can’t make up your mind. You finally find one that might be it but you still hesitate and do the search for alternatives to that one thing you chose. By this time your head is spinning and you decide not to buy anything and just get a cheapo thing at the hardware store only to regret your decision 3 months later.