Plumbing and social control

[WHAMPOM]

I had time this morning to contemplate why plumbing fixtures are such utter garbage. They don't need to be. We have the capacity to build fixtures that don't suck. I concluded that it is no accident of a free market that we can't have functional plumbing. It is a plot by the powers that be to keep us occupied with trivial bullshit while they rape the world. Why else would a faucet that has replaceable valve springy things be built with a screwy on piece so flimsy that it literally shreds under hand tightening? Why are toilet parts either crappy, brittle plastic or metal castings so distorted they were likely made by armless lepers? It is time for a revolution.

"cause it is cheaper to make a two cent plastic part then a two dollar bronze casting. Of course they still charge as if it is the bronze part.

 

[Jeff7]

New toilet, installed by a professional plumber on Monday. It is now Thursday and the valve leaks. I'm naming names, it's made by Kohler. The quality of the innards is reminiscent of consolation prizes for carnival games.

New toilet at work, don't know the brand.
A few months after installation, the tank's guts are leaking, and the seal around the base is failing.

It is having the good kwalitee yes?

"cause it is cheaper to make a two cent plastic part then a two dollar bronze casting. Of course they still charge as if it is the bronze part.

And they scarcely modify the design to account for the fact that it's now made of weaker plastic.

Plastic parts can do a nice job if they're designed correctly.
Plastic flip-top lids with a plastic hinge could last for a very high number of open-close cycles if they are designed and molded correctly. The polymers commonly used have long, stringy molecules. If the molding isn't done in such a way that the molecules are roughly aligned correctly, your flip-top lid will break quickly. But aligned correctly and sized correctly, it'll last far longer than the product in the container.

Weight-bearing plastic parts can do a good job if they are designed using the proper material for the job and are sized correctly. "The proper material" doesn't mean "this is the cheapest kind of plastic I could find anywhere on the planet."