Orion Group

[Meerie]

Heck, even the house I live in is a perfect example of this. It looks very pretty and liveable when the house is empty and you are being shown it in a very short time period (so you don't notice much besides the surface). But after you live in the house for a couple of months, you discover the plumbing sucks, the hardwood floors are cheap particle board lookalikes. The walls have little to no insulation despite it being one of the hottest cities in the US and despite it being much newer than the last crappy house/apartment I lived in. Everything turns out to be shallow with surface beauty only. Everything is designed to wear out rather than the opposite of which would be quality and longevity.

this is called "Producing stuff for the trash can". Manufacturers will deliberately produce low quality, so that the consumers need to get new stuff as often as possible.
I read an article about it not so long ago, for example, in the 50s, there was a company that manufactured nylons and had found a certain formula so they would not ladder.
So if a woman bought their nylons she would literally wear them forever because the fabric was of such good quality.
Now what happens, is that the company owners found out they might sell a lot more, if the nylons were not made to last... they asked an engineer to devise a new formula, so the stockings would still look the same but be easier torn and ladder.
And so they proceeded... and sold a lot more of course.