REALITY?: Why Old People Need to Die

I do not know why they are, in this day of high medical and insurance costs not to mention GenX and their projeny bitterly complaining about how we’re going to use up all ‘their’ social security, sending us all through ‘preventive care’ tests to try to extend our lives.  We need to die out and the sooner the better.

The main reason is not the above, but rather to allow to fade into myth the memories of a better product–regardless of the cost.

Here’s a can of crabmeat that’s about the same size my mom would use to feed her family of five, only when you drained out the water, it was full, unlike this:

Hell, I remember when you opened a can of coffee and you could see the triple ringed indentation in the grounds–so don’t give me the “some settling of contents in shipment” b.s.

And here’s what blew my mind this morning: a coat rack that promised top quality construction that I purchased (3) from Target (manufacturer, Whitmor, Model “Supreme Garment Rack)
that I’ve gotten frustrated with assembling, found at one point that two of their rods were not able to be screwed into place, and tried one last time to at least get two out of three up.

Despite their claims for top quality stainless steel heavy duty material, and the cost of these at about $70 each, the jackasses who designed them have little stupid plastic parts holding the top and bottom racks in place–guess how long those lasted?

And yet I have three other racks I’ve had for thirty years that hold the heavy woolden coats and are in perfect shape.  They’re only a light gauge stainless, no where near the weight of these, yet because some engineer was smart enough to know that a chain’s only as strong as its weakest link and passed on using plastic, they’re fine.

See now, this is what the next generation doesn’t want to know; how to make things last the way generations prior to them managed somehow to do.

On yeah; and we knew how to fill a can of crabmeat or coffee.