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Capitalism realized a while ago that a huge swath of young millennials and elder Gen Z are just broke enough to not comfortably start a family or buy a house but just flush with enough cash to fill the emotional holes left by shitty boomer parents with overpriced children’s toys.
https://bsky.app/profile/wapplehouse.bsky.social/post/3ly23expml22j
B-b-b-b-but the manufacturing tolerances are so tight!
(I had someone tell me this like that fact alone excuses what Lego does to pocketbooks and the environment)
Chinese Lego is indistinguishable now, the pieces even interlock