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The first. I can't see how the part would cost more than the whole with the first regulations.


Logistics, unfortunately. Assembling and selling a million washing machines is simple and streamlined. Keeping track of parts for them, when you're building 30 very similar but oh slightly different models of the same washing machine to fuck over your customers (er, segment market) - well, now that becomes a Hard and Expensive problem.




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