[desro]

I've got over 50 Philips Hue Color bulbs running with no failures since 2016 (so, 7 yrs now) along with between 35-50 FEIT Electric LED bulbs (great for affordable >90 CRI) and only a few of the FEITs have failed over the years. Perhaps it's true that the quality of your electrical service matters; the power in Chicago virtually never goes out.

[housemusicfan]

> I've got over 50 Philips Hue Color bulbs running with no failures since 2016

Those are $40 light bulbs. 99.999% of people do not have $2000 to spend on light bulbs, or laugh at the ludicrousness of such a thought, possibly both.

This is not the metric by which you judge everyone else's experiences. It is luxury/entitlement at its finest. Most commodity LED bulbs are garbage.

[Doxin]

IKEA sells <$10 bulbs that in my experience basically don't break at all either. Quite nice CRI too.

[atoav]

Have 10 of those running for 8 years without a single failure.

[pinkgolem]

Can confirm, also mostly using IKEA bulbs..

Not a single defective one

[Turing_Machine]

Well, it's the boots problem all over again.

A good pair of boots is expensive, but will last for many years.

Cheap boots are more expensive in the long run, because you're lucky to get a year out of them.

> 99.999% of people do not have $2000 to spend on light bulbs

You don't have to replace them all at once. Just doing one at a time, starting with the one that's on the most, would work fine.

I'm also doubtful that the average poor person has 50 light bulbs.

If I were a renter, I think I'd take my good bulbs with me when I moved, replacing them with dollar store cheapies.