

Yeah, that is a bit of a silver lining to this cloud.
It’s bleak to me because when denied the artificial highs of buying crap, they just switched to fake ones to get the fix. Instead of them doing something else that might make them happy in a more real healthy way.
Like breaking an addiction of a real thing, just to replace it with an artificial one.









I would not suddenly take up a deep interest in transmissions, their workings, their manufacturers, which types are mechanically superior, subscribe to a transmission subreddit, argue with strangers about which ones are best, etc…