re: #237 ludwigvanquixote

LVQ, I can count on one hand the number of people I know who know how to do simple vehicle maintenance. You have illustrated a problem with short term corporate profits but I think there is a larger issue. America became a throw-away society. I don’t know how this happened but it did. The corporations, right or wrong, picked up on this and tailored their business models to suit the new desire of Americans to only keep their “stuff” for two or three years. I’ll use the auto as an example: how many people are driving paid off cars and can actually fix them if they break? While corporations are to blame for sending our manufacturing base overseas, the American people need have an attitude adjustment. We need to collectively stop throwing away perfectly good items and learn to live within our means.