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Not funny. Makes me sad.
While a general "Everything used to be better!" isn't a reasonable point of view, there is loss of durability in many everyday products.
Toasters are a good example. The heating coils are often needlessly thin and will burn through at the thinnest point. No, there is no worthwhile way of repairing a simple toaster. It is toast at this point. On my previous toaster, there were a lot of points in the coils that were thinner than the rest – and one of them suddenly went poof after just three years and a bit. Strangely the toaster had a three year warranty. Some coincidence, huh?
No matter if small things like toaster, kettle, hand mixer or big things like washing machine, dryer and such: The average time they last became shorter. Plastic replaced metal. The consumer doesn't have much of a choice. The often heard "You get what you paid for!" statement couldn't be more wrong than it is. The price rarely (there are some exceptions) makes a difference.¹
Funny enough some years ago somebody opened canned bread dating back to World War II: It was like new (in contrast to toast lying around openly). Just what I would expect from a good an undamaged can. The seal of the flimsy bread cans available now surely won't last multiple decades.
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¹ Having watched a complete series of Apple iMac computers fail of the same problem within a few weeks, is reason enough for me to shake my head when somebody comes around with "You get what you paid for!". That doesn't even qualify as rough estimation or "rule of the thumb".
While a general "Everything used to be better!" isn't a reasonable point of view, there is loss of durability in many everyday products.
Toasters are a good example. The heating coils are often needlessly thin and will burn through at the thinnest point. No, there is no worthwhile way of repairing a simple toaster. It is toast at this point. On my previous toaster, there were a lot of points in the coils that were thinner than the rest – and one of them suddenly went poof after just three years and a bit. Strangely the toaster had a three year warranty. Some coincidence, huh?
No matter if small things like toaster, kettle, hand mixer or big things like washing machine, dryer and such: The average time they last became shorter. Plastic replaced metal. The consumer doesn't have much of a choice. The often heard "You get what you paid for!" statement couldn't be more wrong than it is. The price rarely (there are some exceptions) makes a difference.¹
Funny enough some years ago somebody opened canned bread dating back to World War II: It was like new (in contrast to toast lying around openly). Just what I would expect from a good an undamaged can. The seal of the flimsy bread cans available now surely won't last multiple decades.
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¹ Having watched a complete series of Apple iMac computers fail of the same problem within a few weeks, is reason enough for me to shake my head when somebody comes around with "You get what you paid for!". That doesn't even qualify as rough estimation or "rule of the thumb".
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Sad. [YouTube] IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (starting at second 61)
*Walks to the attic and opens window*
*Takes a deep breath and looks outside*
I can see her. She looks just like the actress… and has plenty of kids.
This formally absurd movie has turned into a f…ing documentation.
No. It is a piece of satire that has unfortunately become a talking point by eugenicists and libertarians and edgelords (but I repeat myself), but it's simply not true. The opening joke is just that, a joke.
I disagree on this.
The opening "joke" is just not a joke (anymore). It is a precise presentation of what I can see around me. Where is the joke? I literally see it by just opening the window on the attic and looking out. Leaving the house and walking down the streets I can find many(!) more instances in the near(!) neighborhood.
Not sure what the word edgelord is supposed to mean, but I guess it is some kind of generalizing, categorizing and negative attribute that can be stamped on a person (Maybe to disregard their statements across the board without actually invalidate anything in particular? I really don't know and I do not want to research this right now.)
Bringing in eugenicists as a killer argument against this movie is trite and lame. *Yawn*
Please take in account that the world is not the same everywhere. Maybe you have a better environment of people around you. If so: That's awesome (nor sarcasm!) I can only speak for my area. I have experienced scenes from that movie. Literally witnessed parts of that movie in reality.
Satirists generally have a hard time nowadays. What has formally been absurd exaggeration gets lapped by reality.
Feel free to do so.
I wasn't dismissing the entire movie - there are some things that it does right, and a fair few of the jokes are doing what they're supposed to, holding a large funhouse mirror to reality - I am criticizing the opening scene, the one you posted.
It plays on the idea that intelligence is 100% genetics and not largely impacted by external factors - a very common argument in eugenics.
It plays on the idea that the level of education is 100% related to intelligence and not availability/accessibility of education and other factors - a very common libertarian argument.
It plays on the idea that the family size / number of offspring is dictated by intelligence and education and not by existential stability.
It flat out ignores the hundreds of thousands of years of humanity multiplying like rabbits in a time the only selection for cognitive skills was to be able to recognize the edible part of a tree, that didn't result in the entire humanity regressing to monkeys.
Human intelligence does not work that way.
The opening scene is a joke. It is not fact. It is just that, a funny setup to a funny movie.
Feel free to disagree.
The car was mid giving birth to a new baby car when it was produced..
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