Boomers invented using several different screws in a device to make it unfixable, and then making sure it broke in a year or two

Boomers created the current system where you can't "just fix" your dishwasher. The old dish washer at my parents can be fixed with a screw driver and a ¢25 washer from home depot. The newer ones are all glue, one way plastic clips, and stickers that say it can only be repaired by a certified repair shop. I get kinda what they are saying but the change didn't happen in a vacuum. I used to repaired computers for a living and I noticed year after year computers became more difficult to repair. For most laptops you can't just open them up and swap out bad parts. It's all glued together and has micro components that need to be resoldered to the motherboard. Great for size but impossible to repair outside of the manufacturer. I mean for fuck sakes their are billion dollar military equipment that can't be serviced without the manufacturers help. It's all a scam to keep us dependent on corporations.

My parents' washing machine broke when I was probably like 8 or 9. I helped my dad fix it over a weekend; it cost like $20 and took us a few hours over the course of Friday and Saturday, not counting a couple of trips to the hardware store. We didn't need much in the way of tools other than a Philips screwdriver and a socket set. That washer is still working today, 30 years later.

Contrast that with the washer I bought when we moved into our home five years ago. It broke a month ago, and I didn't even have the tools required to open it. The defect was with the motherboard, the tech discovered; and it would cost $550 to get a replacement made since the part was discontinued three years ago. That replacement would be ready in a month. Or I could spend $600 to buy a new machine.

We live in a very different world.

And Starbucks. Remember had we invested in Starbucks instead of buying it, we'd be bagillionaires like heroes Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who totally got rich the same way.

Home owners get to write off interest, so us renters should get something.

The real bitch is that I could totally afford a mortgage. I've lived in the same place for 11 years without missing a payment on my rent, but because it's rent it doesn't count towards my credit score, so fuck me right?

To be fair, there shouldn't be a "window of affordability", that is a symptom of an ill society. Our ability to acquire shelter, one of the most basic of needs is being stolen from us.

If the capitalists (the psychopathic hoarder class) do it with our homes, you better bet they'd do it with air if they could and watch those that "missed the window of air affordability" suffocate and die.

It's our duty to put a stop to them, there's nearly 8 billion of us and their numbers are a rounding error yet we let them drag us over the waterfall. How? They invented something called "the state" and use another invention called "money", which when combined with marketing allows them to be able to pay others to back them up. This fact is why police are bad people at the most fundamental level.

It was a quick window that's for sure.

The u.s. mostly only uses civil enforcement. If your landlord isn't upholding their end of the contract then the contract is void and you can move somewhere else. There's rarely any mechanism to make them do anything.

It's law in Canada too, but the Landlord Tenant board is so backed up with complaints that you'll have to wait ages for a response to anything but emergencies

Acetone removes glue typically. Sometimes, when you think something is glued in hard, there is an extra screw that you missed.

My garbage disposal just broke. Turns out that the previous owner rigged the dishwasher drain in-line after the disposal, so that there is a chance that disposal water can kick-back into the clean dishes. Fixing that currently.

The kitchen hood vents into the attic, so have to fix that. The owner created a nest of electrical wires in the attic as well, so ended up creating a channel for them and organizing them so they are fastened nicely to the joists.

They created an unstable loft in the garage, so had to demo it since it was ugly as well. The list goes on and on.