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what are the chances this thing will be abandonware in a month? you can make something in a few days but will you commit to maintaining and improving it for the next few years?

Once upon a time people used to ask that about, say, socks

Are there any actual studies on this? I find it somewhat hard to believe that a $20 pair of socks will last for 20x more uses than a $5 pair.

yes, there was a longitudinal study with hundreds of pairs of socks that took place in my house for several decades

But how did the price tags not wear off after all those washes?!? This is the part that has confounded all my experiments so far