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    A dishwasher with a WiFi chipset is not a durable good. Nor is a fridge with a touchscreen, an oven with Bluetooth.

You're completely misinformed. You can buy appliances without any of these and they will still have chips in them. Those buttons controlling the dishwasher? That's a circuit board. The motor driver running the compressor loop in the fridge? Silicon again (and possibly something more exotic for the IGBTs).

Digital logic is just how things are built now. Even if you don't believe in going all the way back to relay logic and analog computing, do you want to give up the switch mode power supplies everywhere in favor of linear regulators?