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by mrguyorama 398 days ago
It's just a normal retail dishwasher, but it's been through some third party company who "customizes" it by removing any branding and maybe adding their own, and then sell it to the rich person through about 3 steps in a chain of middleman where it eventually gets to someone who just "solves" the "I need a house" problem of the rich person.

Cathode Ray Dude on Youtube talks about this in his videos about the Niveus media center computer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2OPrGBxkD0

The rich do not give a single fuck how it functions. They have never even thought about that or considered it. If they bought a dishwasher that sucks at washing dishes, their staff will deal with that. If they bought one that breaks after a few months, it will be replaced and they probably will never know. They haven't even stepped foot in this house in months anyway.

The rich are not discerning purchasers because they do not have to be, and they think their time is way too valuable to care about simple things like "Am I spending too much on this" or "Will this widget actually work as advertised"