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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by hasmanean on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:16PM (#32490289)
Yes, this is the moral of the story behind the “one boss shay.”

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45280/45280-h/45280-h.htm

A deacon designed a horse cart where all the parts were designed to last a hundred years. Most cart had a weak spot which meant the cart wore out but never broke down. This thing was built with no weak spots.

So on the hundredth and one year to the day, all of a sudden everything failed at the same time and it collapsed into a cloud of dust.

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