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[jstanley]

This could easily be selection bias.

The only 40-year-old washing machines you run into are the good ones, because the bad ones were scrapped a long time ago.

[jacobr1 → jstanley]

Also repairability - if it is easy to acquire or (or even spot manufacture) replacement parts plenty of things can lost quite a long time (in the theseus ship sense).