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Quality is a hard sell in almost every field in a world that values immediacy over the long term.


I mean, it’s the Vimes Boot Theory, everywhere. Everyone wants everything cheap, and now, and end up costing themselves more in the long term.


Vimes Boot theory was that poor people can't afford high quality stuff and thus pay more (constant replacement of low quality boots) and get less (wet feet).


And is one of the (few) problem that financing solves.




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