Barry wrote.
It's only by the virtues of "capitalism"
that you can buy a working floppy
drive for $10.
Capitalism is good, but it's not perfect. There are some drawbacks,
such as that I can only buy a *mostly* working floppy drive for $10
and mostly *nonworking* floppy diskettes for pennies. I can't buy newly
manufactured high-quality drives or diskettes for any price, because
they simply aren't made. Back in the mid-to-late 1980s, (some) floppy
drives were of better manufacture, and also cost much more. Of course,
there were poor-quality ones back then as well.
The phenomenon that the poor quality products drive the good ones out
of the market, due to consumers unwillingness to spen is called
"crapitalism", or by less cynical people, the "race to the bottom".