The article doesn’t even mention stuff like planned obsolescence or the fact that a lot of new goods end up being destroyed to artificially inflate prices.
The article doesn’t even mention stuff like planned obsolescence or the fact that a lot of new goods end up being destroyed to artificially inflate prices.
not to mention that a lot of the cheap housing the USSR built post-war was well maintained until the fall (with a few exceptions), and it’s not really until after the fall that a lot of those apartment structures started to fall apart or show their age. But of course, no one talks about that. Instead, it’s “this is how these buildings have always been” with no nuance, nor material reasoning.