Wrong.
When you wanted a blender, you looked at the available models, and budgeted your money to buy the particular one that suited your needs, and you could afford. You didn't buy a cheap piece of plastic crap every five minutes to satisfy your braindead consumer drive, you instead made one deliberate purchase, your blender, which was made by a guy in a factory who worked 40 hours a week and who owned a modest house which was kept clean by his wife (the daughter helped clean, and the son helped mow the lawn).
You took it home, opened the box, and read the instructions. You made something with it, and you and your family spent a little quality time being entertained by your new purchase, a quality blender, and all enjoyed the new foods it helped to create.
You cleaned it, and put it away in the place you made for it in the kitchen cabinet until the next time you needed it, and you did this for 10, 20, maybe even 30 years. If it broke, you fixed it because it was made from metal and glass and used standard fasteners and parts that you could at the very least order from a parts company.
When you finally gave it up, it went to a second hand store, where they made sure it was working, and someone without much money bought it for a good price and took care of it in the same way that you did.
Now don't get me wrong, the cheap plastic blender isn't everything that is wrong with our country, but it is one of many example of the way in which our once proud and noble culture has allowed itself to be dumped into a landfill without concern for those who worked hard to build it up to what it once was, because we have been conditioned to not care about the things which were once culturally important to us (wouldn't want to offend anyone now, would we).
Jon