Bill Maher – ‘Reverse Improvement’

At 2:48 below:

Reverse Improvement

“Making an upgrade to a popular product that nobody wants, needs or likes.”

More than 3,500 comments are posted with the video above.

From comments:

“This is why I drive a 46 year-old truck with no computers in it.”

“Our washing machine and dryer are at least 30 years old. No electronics, nothing fancy, they just work.”

May 7, 2012 Foundation for Economic Education

Jeffrey A. Tucker

How Government Wrecked the Gas Can

“…something that used to work but doesn’t work anymore, for some odd reason we can’t identify.”

Random Thoughts From Oak Bay Starfish

Old Gas Cans

People used to work in US factories making various models of metal gas cans:

These sort of lasted forever. They were easy to use. I have a plastic version from the early 90s that works well. It has a simple air vent. Just right.

Quality replacement parts were sold for years. This kit appears to no longer be available.

Our laundry room fan stopped working. We went to a big box store to see if they had a replacement part/unit. We only needed the fan motor-nothing else.

In the old days, things would be fixed or repaired. Today, the idea is to throw it away and start over as if the unit had never been installed to begin with.

We arrived at a big display of bathroom fans. Buttons were being pushed to sample fan features. Exhaust fan units today come with lights, a sound system and the ability to speak to a machine and ask it to play music or order items for the bathroom. All of this was being demonstrated at the store display.

I said out loud:

Alexa,

Take me back to 1975 and leave me there.

Alexa – Take Me Back

Let me have the internet of 20-25 years ago and I’m good.

Internet was better 20 years ago

The Old Ways

Jobs of the Past/Human Interactions of the Past

1975 – Happy New Year

Happy New Year – Thought About It

When I was a kid, reality TV was The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau:

Reality TV