clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:

If americans as a whole would value quality and maintain / repair
instead of throw away and replace cheap, mabee we would still have a
manufacturing industry too.

Actually you can lay the blame for that business model at the feet of Andrew
Carnegie.

He is the one who gave birth to the idea of buying a piece of machinery,
running it 24/7, without any maintenance, until it died, then replace it.

Lew