> On making light of people born post-1990s how no one can fix anything now. "We care less about repair as most would rather just scrap that broken TV and get a new one. The electronic and small appliance repair store are all but gone"
Very few people have ever been capable of fixing things, especially electronics. As electronics got smaller, more integrated and more complicated the bar got higher, reducing the pool of capable people even more.
The other problem is that TVs have gotten cheaper at the same time labor prices have gone up. This drove all the TV repair shops out of business because the bench time alone to even do a quick diagnosis is already starting to approach the cost of a new TV. Spending hundreds of dollars to (maybe) repair your 5+ year old TV just doesn't really make a ton of sense to most people. And that's assuming there's not a major fault: replacing a few capacitors is one thing; replacing the mainboard or LCD panel can cost more than buying a new TV.
This same pattern repeats for most consumer electronics, sadly.
Very few people have ever been capable of fixing things, especially electronics. As electronics got smaller, more integrated and more complicated the bar got higher, reducing the pool of capable people even more.
The other problem is that TVs have gotten cheaper at the same time labor prices have gone up. This drove all the TV repair shops out of business because the bench time alone to even do a quick diagnosis is already starting to approach the cost of a new TV. Spending hundreds of dollars to (maybe) repair your 5+ year old TV just doesn't really make a ton of sense to most people. And that's assuming there's not a major fault: replacing a few capacitors is one thing; replacing the mainboard or LCD panel can cost more than buying a new TV.
This same pattern repeats for most consumer electronics, sadly.