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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by Retric on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:17PM (#17759822)
You can easily spend 3000$ on a crap fridge.

The problem is optimization as energy efficiency and lifespan for example are often at odds. Further you can measure energy efficiency much easier than lifespan so the incentives get out of whack from what consumers want in favor of what they can measure.

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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by Spooky23 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:22PM (#17760492)
Energy efficiency is one of the most noxious concepts in appliances.

We probably spend exponentially more energy manufacturing, distributing and delivering new appliances that fail due to pointless efficiency engineering than we shave off.

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