Inferior technology

A present from the Xmas Fairy: as I was reaching for the study light switch at the end of Xmas Day . . . darkness. The bulb had croaked. Made in China, naturally, LED, “lasts up to 10 years”, it said on the box of the replacement.
    Right!
    They might as well put “lasts up to 50 years” as that also includes the year or so’s use I got out of the thing.