Can my car kill a battery in 2 weeks?

This topic got me to thinking It seems pretty common i wonder how many cars got scraped back in the 80s-90s because of this simple problem. Because I remember it was a pita for me I changed the battery then the new one went dead replaced the battery and the alternator went dead again spent months trying to track it down and finally just put a disconnect on the battery terminal until I accidentally found it one day. This happened back when my dart was my daily. I just wonder how many times people (who don't love their cars like we do) got feed up scraped them and bought another car over something like this.