Don’t seek durability, seek the most supreme thing, 100%, at the expense of durability.

For example, 100% merino wool, no nylon added. Adding nylon adds durability, but reduces performance.

Also, 14 karat gold is more durable than 22 karat gold, but 22 karat gold is much more yellow and interesting, and looks more baller.

Also, aluminum over stainless steel. It really makes no sense to have a stainless steel iPhone Pro, as nobody’s going to own their phone that long anyways. Aluminum is less durable, but lighter, doesn’t attract fingerprints, and thus superior.

Even with cameras, brass is more durable, like on the black paint film Leica MP, but it is heavier, thus inferior. With a camera, one should always optimized for lightness.

Once again, heavier is inferior.

Even my Ricoh GR cameras, the durability is very poor. Sooner or later they stop working after about two or three years, until I just get a new one. Maybe the trade-off is worth it.

Also, with luggage and backpacks. Better to have a lighter backpack, with less durability, than a very durable backpack or luggage case, which is heavier. When you’re traveling, we’re on the road, every gram counts.

Also with bicycles; carbon fiber over iron. Even though iron is 1 trillion times more durable than carbon fiber, if you’re seeking to win a race, every gram counts.

Perhaps athletes, or those seeking the summit don’t care about their own bodily durability

For example, I recently learned that if you’re a bodybuilder, who is taking all these steroids, human growth hormones, and strange testosterone boosting drugs, your body becomes reliant on it, and if you get off of it, your body can no longer produce testosterone naturally anymore. This is horrible.

But, if you’re a bodybuilder sitting in the summit, let’s say a Ronnie Coleman, it seems that he seeked and desired the peak summit of muscular mass, and bigness, at the expense of being a cripple for the rest of his life.