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i have a parent that always wants me or one of my siblings to have their broken shit.
i always turn it down. my older sibling takes whatever it is and sits on it.
but every time our parent contacts me and complains that my sibling doesn't understand value because they haven't stopped their work, raising their kids, and their personal time to fix something they broke. and of course their stuff is too valuable, broken or whatever, to throw out it is our responsibility to want their garbage.
it was for our parent's 10 year old broken laptop last time.
I think this is mostly just because stuff used to be valuable but now is not, because of advances in automation and production, and people who grew up in the old paradigm can't wrap their heads around it. You can buy a radio for the cost of a single meal at a restaurant. You can buy a washer and dryer for the cost of one month's rent. Time and space is expensive, possessions are cheap, but it used to be the other way around.