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It Shouldn't Be This Hard
by Audacy
Everything is broken.The refrigerator is making a new noise. The car has a warning light. The dishwasher smells weird. The website doesn’t work. The government sent you a letter that requires three phone calls to understand. And somehow the replacement for the thing that lasted 25 years is expected to last seven.It Shouldn’t Be This Hard is about figuring out why everyday things are more complicated, fragile, expensive, and frustrating than they have any right to be.Cars, houses, appliances, technology, money, government, and the questionable decision to try fixing any of it yourself.
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Why Your New Appliances Die So Young
Your parents had a refrigerator that survived three presidents and a kitchen remodel.Yours has a touchscreen, Wi-Fi, seventeen sensors, and a nervous breakdown after four years. So what happened?In this episode of It Shouldn’t Be This Hard, we dig into why modern appliances seem to be getting more complicated, less repairable, and suspiciously worse at staying alive. Is it planned obsolescence? Government efficiency rules? A race to the bottom on price? Or did we simply add a computer to every household object that absolutely did not need one?We get into circuit boards replacing simple switches, plastic replacing metal, $12 parts buried behind $600 repair bills, and why buying the “better” model sometimes just means getting more things that can break. And because complaining without solving anything is basically just a homeowners association meeting, we’ll also talk about what to actually look for if you want an appliance that might still be working a decade from now.It shouldn’t be this hard to buy a machine that washes things. And yet, here we are.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Everything is broken.The refrigerator is making a new noise. The car has a warning light. The dishwasher smells weird. The website doesn’t work. The government sent you a letter that requires three phone calls to understand. And somehow the replacement for the thing that lasted 25 years is expected to last seven.It Shouldn’t Be This Hard is about figuring out why everyday things are more complicated, fragile, expensive, and frustrating than they have any right to be.Cars, houses, appliances, technology, money, government, and the questionable decision to try fixing any of it yourself.
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Everything is broken.The refrigerator is making a new noise. The car has a warning light. The dishwasher smells weird. The website doesn’t work. The government sent you a letter that requires three phone calls to understand. And somehow the replacement for the thing that lasted 25 years is expected...
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