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This toaster was expensive when it launched, but could be considered worth the money since it would last for a long time and it seems to have a good resale price even today.

On the other hand, today it is hard to buy simple things of good quality on Amazon - example 100% cotton or 100% woolen clothes. And it would be harder in a physical superstore like Target or Walmart.

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You might appreciate the BuyItForLife subreddit. The ad hoc nature can make it hard to find stuff, but the posts are generally all direct testimonial by people who have had a given item for an extended period of time.

Imagine if we had testers who take a bunch of products with them into a space apartments moving at relativistic speeds, and when ready to retire they can tell us how their products fared during their lifetime... Corporate monasticism, sacrificing one working life a month or so to create an index that helps punish corporations for poor durability...

Doesn't relativity work the other way around? Wouldn't less time pass for them if you did that?

You're right yeah. So I guess we just periodically put the rest of humanity into a relativistic-pace space-station.

there's a movie for that, but I think it would be a spoiler to name it

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