But we are not in control of the evaluation function.
It is heavily manipulated by ads and other patterns.
You can control your own evaluation if you are actively working on it but market moves based on majority so it doesn’t matter
It is heavily manipulated by ads and other patterns.
You can control your own evaluation if you are actively working on it but market moves based on majority so it doesn’t matter
As consumers can not tell the quality of products beforehand, and price is certainly no guarantee of quality, the only logical choice is to buy cheap.
I wish there was a sort of rating of product quality [1], so I can choose the optimum price/quality for a product.
[1] Reviews suck for this purpose. Half of them say things like "Fast shipping, five stars!". By the time defects show up months later and the one-star reviews arrive, the product is discontinued anyway.
Needless to say, I got an Ikea desk delivered 3 days later.
The problem with "you want real quality" people is they mostly seem to advocate buying expensive demonstrative items, rather then properly evaluating what they need.
If a desk has successful held my things and enabled me to work at it for over a decade, what exactly is "quality" meant to be and be bought for?
Even if you can now, it is getting more difficult.
And there doesn’t seem to be any way to avoid it as every washing machine is becoming “smart”, worse at actually washing clothes and using internet to send your data so it can be sold for more profit.
https://speedqueencommercial.com/en-us/products/top-load-was...
If there are ads and manipulation for every possible thing, then what you end up buying still depends on your personal tastes and preferences.
At the end of the day, ever living creatures depends on its extend environment to some extent. The idea that this ever could be different is not realistic. Even if you band all ads, other things would simply take its place as the environment your exposed to.
That said, I'm not against limit some kinds of ads and specially in some places. But we should just outright claim people are not capable of making their own decisions, that's a bad road to go down.
> market moves based on majority so it doesn’t matter
Except it does matter because we do not live in a state controlled system where if 51% people believe pants should be green, 100% of people wear green pants. Even a small number of people can be enough to create a small market for something. Go look into retro computers. The majority clearly doesn't care about old Amiga hardware and software, but yet you can buy it in various forms. There are countless examples.