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".