Dishwashers Supply and Demand

There is general demand for things everybody needs, like winter gloves in countries north of the Equator. Then there is class-based demand, for a small section of the population with surplus money or certain lifestyles. The two are not interchangeable because there are frugal millionaires who prefer to be under the shade about where and how they live.

Dishwashers. We will assume that during product development, someone said dishwashers will come in handy after dinner parties.

The meal is a sum total of strips: appetizers, main course and dessert, served on designated bowls and plates. Cutlery, glasses and cups also add to dirty dishes.

Dishwashers are not essential. That’s why we don’t buy them ourselves. We find them in new houses, rental apartments and condos we bought when some developer turned a factory into a condominium building.

Despite their ‘free’ presence, we don’t use them because the lifestyle has changed. People stopped entertaining at home. They don’t have elaborate dinner sets like their mothers. Some women inherited them, but ask them how often they use them.

Dinner parties stopped because we avoid cooking. Big supermarkets take care of everything. You can pick up any meal from the frozen section, salad bar or hot food section and, that rotisserie is always turning. They also sell trays of sliced fruit and veggies that can serve 15.  

We also go online and order food. It is delivered in plastic serving plates and plastic cups. Who needs a dishwasher? We eat and throw them in the garbage.

We will never save the little environment left, because of product development. Lifestyle-based products like dishwashers become extinct when the lifestyle fizzles and dies.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.