Personally I like the toaster test, but it takes a lot of toast to show that the toaster works. Not everyone likes toast as much as I do. Fortunately there's a cheaper alternative, one that I mentioned in a rant last year...
... This morning our last modern pencil sharpener broke. We have only one that works now. It's twelve years old, I remember coming across it in the campus bookstore ... It was made in Germany. We're going to mention it in our will, it may be worth a fortune thirty years from now...When we buy pencil sharpeners now they look like this:
... How to explain this emergent conspiracy of globalized incompetence and occult inflation? Clearly the answer is related to Krugman and Hilton [1] and the reelection of George Bush... Consumers are ... consistently making very poor choices, and the market is responding to the frailty of the consumer...
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When we can buy pencil sharpeners that work as well as this one ...
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the economy will be on the mend.
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