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asdf :
I bought my fridge, washer, and dryer brand new a decade ago. They are perfect today. Love them all. And no, the washer is not a top loader. It’s an LG front loader. Spectacular machine.
2026-08-30 04:47:12
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niknack19 :
Within 10 years, I’ve gone through three washing machines for dryers two refrigerators, two microwaves one dishwasher so yeah, nothing less anymore
2026-07-24 03:28:35
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BrianLokzzz :
she bad af
2026-07-22 03:08:02
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Reality Check Politics :
Modern refrigerators have more complex parts, requiring more likely and costly repairs. Also the Norwegian study did NOT say refrigerators have maintained the same lifespan for the last 80 years; it measured the average time a refrigerator remains in use. It does not prove your point.
2026-07-21 17:34:57
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Alex Kack :
I have hated every refrigerator I’ve had post 2010
2026-08-23 18:53:07
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Crazy beard :
sooo wsj is just Fox News with extra steps?
2026-07-22 20:49:31
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Sam Ferree :
Me watching this knowing I posted the survivorship bias image on the original video.
2026-08-25 13:35:05
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jimmy :
planned obsolescence
2026-07-21 17:40:10
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scooter :
All I know is that one of my refrigerators broke after three years because the piston in the compressor had a plastic ring. I was told that there’s no way to fix it because every compressor is inverter type and requires a specific computer board. Thus, they are more complicated today and are difficult to repair if they break
2026-08-27 14:01:37
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mobshallow :
The study is for refrigerators in Norway, which are smaller, more efficient, run less often, and last longer than American refrigerators. Using it in this context is intentionally misleading (aka lying).
2026-07-22 11:29:09
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Dr. Heaney 🎷 :
Like the data, dislike the snark.
2026-07-21 22:35:00
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Erasmo Passaro Jr. :
THE ICE MAKERS ALWAYS BREAK
2026-07-24 03:42:05
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
Talk about the fact that certain fridge companies, GE, literally program it where they don’t accept third party filters, they have a chip in the filter and the fridge has a computer. You can access the computer from inside the fridge and check the code to see if they do this and other things. Also enough with the capitalist propaganda. À bas le capitalisme !
2026-07-21 13:56:09
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Ian :
Not sure it's really a flex that the average age of refrigerators has not budged in almost 50 yrs. That in fact shows that they're not getting better.
2026-07-28 20:03:11
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user346948163950 :
I adore my Samsung Bespoke fridge. Nugget Ice, auto-refilling filtered water pitcher, beautiful glass doors. I can turn the ice maker on and off from my phone. All that and it consumes so much less electricity than my 20 year old model.
2026-07-25 13:46:03
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2xbuttqvre1 :
people always say “the old fridge in my garage/basement has worked perfectly for 30 years” yeah because you use it 1% as much as your kitchen fridge
2026-08-12 14:05:52
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the guy :
well with the rising costs of repair and replacement, id imagine most families are keeping their broken fridge (assuming thr fridge or freezer may not work but the other half does) I'm guessing this "research" didn't really take everything into consideration. like instead of replacing your entire fridge, buy a mini fridge to go alongside.........
2026-07-22 11:07:06
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Jojo57 :
This is not well-reasoned. The average “lifespan” of refrigerators early on was because technology and form factors were changing, as well as requirements. So people were replacing perfectly good appliances early on much sooner than necessary. Now, they get replaced when they aren’t worth repairing. What looks like a consistent level of quality is a changing motivation for replacement now that what a refrigerator is is pretty much standard. We’re seeing exactly this with phones right now. For a while, everybody was getting new phones every year or two. That has changed and the average time people keep a phone now is longer. It’s not because newer phones are more durable. It’s because the actual substantive capabilities stopped changing.
2026-08-25 06:27:16
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alex :
this is such a bs propaganda channel. everyone knows quality of everything is going to sh*t.
2026-07-21 13:59:33
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oat :
Except the biggest complaint about your video was that failed to take into the fact that refrigerators had a much higher relative cost, fridges today are much cheaper. And you didn't address this, instead layered on additional snark while continuing to be wrong. This is why nobody takes journalism seriously anymore
2026-08-27 17:57:59
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tiktalkin41 :
You are so close to getting it but did not critically research your point. I had a 20k fridge where the 150 pound door fell off at year 5. Had a replacement and have spent 6k in repairs and it still has issues. Quality is crap. Warranties went from 10 years for large appliances and are now down to 2, at most
2026-07-21 21:27:25
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KimBalSlice :
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2026-08-31 22:04:07
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