Yeah, I think globalization has made products so commoditized, its more economical to throw them away than fix them. 4k 55' TVs for less than a grand; in the 80s that purchase would have been a projection TV for several thousand dollars (in 80s dollars!) and would have been kept for a decade or more. Now, it's toss it and upgrade. Same with PCs, etc.

Isn't that in large part due to income disparity. The place where it needs to be fixed has wages far higher than the place where it's made.

Also that companies design stuff to break, and design things to be hard to fix.

Legally mandating long warranties and long term parts availability would probably help?

> we've become a throw away generation without the ability to get in there and see how the machine work.

You should check out YouTube. Your perception seems to be skewed, maybe by your social circle? We're living in a golden age of "ability to get in there and see how the machines work".