by jeffbee on 12/18/21, 4:22 PM
It's not planned obsolescence, it's value engineering. Last century a refrigerator costs so much that people would take out loans to buy one. Today you can get a quality refrigerator for $400. Seriously the cost of the refrigerator is a central theme of the play Death of a Salesman. Today, probably, nobody is killing themselves in despair over the prices of refrigerators.