in the trilemma of cheap-good-fast, i think people have always preferred cheap-fast, and it just so happened that during the dawn of ford/taylor processes, the rapid advancement of 20th c light industry threw in good as well as a bonus
Regretfully, I no longer believe that quality emerges as a straightforward byproduct of market competition. Quality requires a kind of virtue ethics, a Nietzschean “esteem” for quality which we no longer hold.
Gordon
I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.
