Iโve been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.
I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery materialโI canโt actually call it fabric in good faithโand fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, theyโre not made of asbestos. Theyโre only separated by time.
Thereโs no wood used in interior design unless itโs a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every โapartment hackโ I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.
Iโve been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and โgrowthโ and โprofitโ are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.
everything is more expensive, and everything is getting shittier.
