I considered buying a very high end dishwasher until I learned that the quality of the high end brands are shite. So just buy some shitty appliance and know you’ll probably have to replace it in 3 years regardless. Anyway this seems untrue. What’s driving the decline in vet care for instance?
I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.