Today I learned that East German chemists created almost unbreakable consumer glassware in the 1970s. They produced hundreds of millions of drinking glasses, expecting significant exports to the west because the product was just so much better than regular glass.
Those exports did not happen. If you're a western marketer of glassware, you *want* your products to break so you can sell new ones.
Outstanding job, capitalism. This is why we can't have nice things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfest
Paul Fenwick
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