We have evolved into a society which disdains the making of things and absolutely abhors the concept of repairing them. There were three television repair shops in the small town where I grew up. I believe that today the breed is effectively extinct.
That’s not a social trend, it’s an economic one. The reason why we don’t fix TVs any more is:
1) The don’t break, like the old ones used to, and
2) The amount one would have to charge is more than a new one costs.
This is due to cheap, high quality manufacturing in Asia, and better technology. This is also, btw, the reason why people don’t build TVs from kits as was not uncommon in the ’60s. These days, even ham radio operators, who used to build their own gear, but appliances from Asia. It’s too expensive to make your own these days, and the technology has become almost impractical to handle as an individual.
