One reason repair/maintenance/DIY home handyman stuff is such a yakshave is that you have to deal with vast amounts of reality detail for even the smallest, cheapest things, which is why unless you have other motives, it is almost always radically cheaper to replace than repair.
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Almost all my home repair/diy attempts stall out at "right idea, wrong materials/tools" and a choice between Plan C (replace the thing) and Plan A (more yakshave than I have time for and accumulate more skills/inventory than I want to)
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Kind of makes you wish every apartment building could have a person who could accumulate the tools/know how to repair your stuff and run a service doing so for like, $2-$5 (even accumulating a library of 3D models!). But, regulations etc.
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Is it rational to buy another whatever rather than retrieve the old one from the mansion's attic?
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You do realize I don't actually have a mansion :D
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Have similar thoughts any time I pick up my sewing bag to do minor mending
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Totally... the whole mask sewing chapter of the pandemic was very revealing. My wife sewed a couple at fairly high cost in the early days... now streets of LA are full of poor people running $3-5 mask vending stands
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Should be called the Globalised Manufactory Tax (GMT)... parts are so self-contained/independent to discourage break-fix knowledges.
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Leave globalization out of it, this is a universal market design problem.
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