Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It
It's definitely a generational thing and younger folks have never seen a repair and retain society or scarcity that drives that hoarding attitude.  And unless they collect or inherit vintage equipment (survivor bias aside) they haven't purchased anything designed to last many years much less decades.<p>Before anyone accuses me of slagging on Millennials I don't mean it that way. I mean since we have a manufacturing base that is in my opinion far more aggressive about planned obsolescence than 50+ years ago and several generations used to cheap, low quality goods manufactured overseas why would they want or need anything else?  We value the novel and inexpensive over the durable.