<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toast0</author><text>Cost to repair has grown while cost for new has reduced.&lt;p&gt;If you can repair things yourself, and you can find the parts you need to repair things, then sure. But if it&amp;#x27;s something I&amp;#x27;ve got to pay for someone&amp;#x27;s experience and wisdom, that&amp;#x27;s pretty expensive these days, at least where I&amp;#x27;m living, and it&amp;#x27;s just plain hard to find people who repair things too; lots of signs for TV repair outside empty shops.&lt;p&gt;Thankfully I&amp;#x27;m semi-retired, and am on a salary for part time work, so my marginal time has no dollar cost, so I can take a day to try to repair a dishwasher, and then another day to install a new one when it rebreaks a couple days later. A professional installer probably would have had the new one installed in an hour instead of my all day, but I didn&amp;#x27;t have to wait for scheduling, at least.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghoomketu</author><text>Growing up in India about 20 years ago, we often repaired or renewed almost everything because our buying power was low and things were expensive. We used a lot of hacks, known as *jugaads*, to make things work. Even clothes were reused, with tailors doing *rafu* (patchwork) to extend their life. This was especially common in middle-class homes like mine.&lt;p&gt;My dad, who worked in a garment export house, used to tell me stories about how people in the West preferred disposable items and often opted for newer stuff, whether it was cars, gadgets, or clothes. At the time, I didn&amp;#x27;t understand this mentality. But now, with increased buying power and lower costs (thanks to China), we too tend to just chuck things away and get replacements.&lt;p&gt;I deeply admire people who don&amp;#x27;t give up midway and think it&amp;#x27;s easier to buy new. This type of persistence and resourcefulness is truly commendable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/09/fixing-an-elgato-hd60-s-hdmi-capture-device-with-the-help-of-ghidra/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uep</author><text>This is how it was for me growing up blue collar in the northeastern USA in the 80s. My father fixed everything in the house and the vehicles. I inherited my older siblings clothes, and my younger siblings inherited mine. My mother would hem pant legs shorter when we were young, and then let them back out as we grew older. If you wore a knee or an elbow out of clothes, it was getting patched.&lt;p&gt;This instilled some good and bad tendencies in me. I do almost all of the repairs around the house myself. I work too much though, so I don&amp;#x27;t always have enough time or energy. Even though I can easily afford it, I have a hard time paying someone else to do them. This means I live with broken stuff longer than I should.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d probably have more money if I spent that time working on side projects instead of doing maintenance and repairs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghoomketu</author><text>Growing up in India about 20 years ago, we often repaired or renewed almost everything because our buying power was low and things were expensive. We used a lot of hacks, known as *jugaads*, to make things work. Even clothes were reused, with tailors doing *rafu* (patchwork) to extend their life. This was especially common in middle-class homes like mine.&lt;p&gt;My dad, who worked in a garment export house, used to tell me stories about how people in the West preferred disposable items and often opted for newer stuff, whether it was cars, gadgets, or clothes. At the time, I didn&amp;#x27;t understand this mentality. But now, with increased buying power and lower costs (thanks to China), we too tend to just chuck things away and get replacements.&lt;p&gt;I deeply admire people who don&amp;#x27;t give up midway and think it&amp;#x27;s easier to buy new. This type of persistence and resourcefulness is truly commendable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/09/fixing-an-elgato-hd60-s-hdmi-capture-device-with-the-help-of-ghidra/</url></story>