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I'm not using my chefs knife most of the time either, but I sure as fuck am not going to walk to the community chef knife repository every time I want to use one.
My shower only sees 10 minutes of use a day, do I need to remove half of my bathroom and share with a dozen people so we aren't over producing fiberglass showers?
How about my vacuum? I only use that about once a week, probably shouldn't even own one of those either. I'll just pop on down to grab a vacuum when someone else isn't using it, maybe make a schedule for who gets to use one and when for max efficiency, like a vacuum library.
It's not like they wear out sitting there for a week, they wear out when they get used. I would agree that the race to the bottom in quality is bad, and more people should have durable repairable machines that don't hook up to the wifi, but I don't think that a non-consumable utility like a washing machine is bad for people to own and use.
It's not about good or bad, it's about efficiency. I get being skeptical about Americans currently being able to come up with a reliable system of sharing, but we desperately need to curtail consumption and durable shared goods is one way to get there. If I had the extra time afforded by reasonable production levels to go to collective repositories for a vacuum I wouldn't mind that. It's a drag right now because I alternate shifts with my partner to afford to live, but in a more reasonable society a little exercise and planning wouldn't hurt me.
Westerners live an unsustainable lifestyle. Things will have to change to coexist with everyone on a planet we can sustain.