No. Mass-producing a product for consumers is just more complicated than that. There are tradeoffs to be made with every single part, every single design decision. And the truth is, the vast majority of people will choose low price over quality. So building things “to last” is not economically viable. As in - companies that make things “to last” don’t survive, or at least they don’t reach the masses anyway. I agree with you that it’s bad for the planet, and affects the underprivileged disproportionately, but the alternative is that things just don’t get made, period. Maybe someday when the whole human race wakes up and collectively decides to stop constantly competing with each other and learns to share, we can have this. But the appliance industry is not going to fix that problem.
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