Perhaps we should look rather at the quality of modern appliances, and the dearth of people who can repair them, who've gone out of business because appliances are not intended to be fixable. I CAN fix many things, or rather, I could, but for most of the electric stuff we have, spare parts are just not available.

Some items are just ludicrous, like flimsy(and unavailable) moulded plastic hinges on big heavy frig. doors, dryer doors, microwave doors. People who keep house have to move things to clean behind and under. Could this be the unnamed wife's job?

Or like unavailable transformers for otherwise good TVs and printers.
Nothing electronic works on the power that comes out of the wall, the voltage has to be transformed. Guess how.

We live in a throw-away world. Stuff is cheaper than it used to be for good reason.