We don’t fix stuff anymore. Primarily this is because we’re living in a throwaway society. Your radio breaks and it’s cheaper to get a new one. Also, when things break we don’t know how to fix them. I opened my car bonnet and it’s basically a slab of silver stuff with Mazda written on it. And when I book it in for a service I don’t get a mechanic, I get a ‘technician’ who plugs my engine into a laptop. Even he doesn’t know how to fix it! The laptop has the knowledge. As for the photocopier...
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Cast your mind back to the olden days (ie, 5 years ago). If ‘change’ was a dog it would have been a Labrador, all friendly and comfortable and licky. Sure, it had teeth but it wouldn’t dream of sinking them into you! You could throw ‘change’ a ball and it’d come back and drop it at your feet in a beautifully predictable and well-trained way.
It won’t have escaped your notice that the world has moved on dramatically and is kind of, well, a bit more aggressive...