[robbrit]

You're assuming a false dichotomy between amazing-but-unrepairable vs. crappy-but-repairable products. It's possible to have amazing-but-repairable products, they just don't do it because it's less profitable to do so.

> you can always...... just not buy

Even better: you can buy something that is fixable. That way you get the enjoyment of having it, and can still fix it when it breaks.

[24gttghh]

>> you can always...... just not buy

>Even better: you can buy something that is fixable. That way you get the enjoyment of having it, and can still fix it when it breaks.

GP is right there. It's the first tenant of the 3-R's: Reduce. Or I guess one could consider repair as Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling, depending how you look at it.

[robbrit]

It's easy to argue this perspective when talking about iPhones, significantly more difficult when talking about appliances like fridges or stoves. People aren't going to say, "oh, fridges are not very repairable, so I'm not going to buy one." They'll buy an unfixable one and then toss it when it breaks.

[sokoloff]

I’ve never had a hard time getting parts for a fridge or stove repair.

If anything, I think it’s gotten easier and cheaper than before (though it often takes a couple days to arrive rather than being very expensive though in-stock at the local appliance parts store as it was 20 years ago.)

[jfk13]

> It's the first tenant of the 3-R's

I think the word you really wanted there was "tenet".