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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
As far as people from my generation keeping something, such as a TV; well, it's not likely to happen. Heck, the TV wouldn't have to die for most people in my age group to trash it. Just let something "bigger and better" come along and that's all it will take. I wonder how many people are dumping their standard LCD TV's in order to make room for a new 3D set?
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I think this statement says a lot about the current human condition in American society. I think that this mindset could be looked at in regards to age or "generation," but I honestly believe that we have reached a point in time where the ultimate "generation" (50-70 ish) is getting older and want to remain forever young and hip, so they are almost as quick as a 25 year old to push a perfectly good working device to the "obsolete" bin for whatever popular culture finds is the latest and greatest "must have" item. It was their parents who generally had higher moral standards, patriotism, and a superb work ethic that we have not seen since, and unfortunatly their numbers are growing very thin.
So now it seems that people no longer consider much of anything in terms of the hard work that it may (or may not) have taken to obtain a given item, and nothing made these days is really of any use or built of good quality material for use as something else, as was the case of the old B&W console becoming a stand for the new 19" color portable. What I never get is HOW everyone, no matter how poor, seems to have most of these things.
