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I mean if of course it’s not coming back. Clothing has a huge labor component and labor is expensive in the USA. Way cheaper to pay 1$ a day than 20$ an hour.

I mean if of course it’s not coming back. Clothing has a huge labor component and labor is expensive in the USA. Way cheaper to pay 1$ a day than 20$ an hour. But even if you fixed that the sub component infrastructure isn’t there. The raw fabrics are simply not available here so even if you did pay labor of 160/$ a day you would still not be able to get raw materials

BarryPark 3y ago
Hypernormalizing human agency in terms of fiat economics is political propaganda to maintain contemporary economic tradition where wealth management middleman create the pipeline of raw textile to product in store shelf. We should greatly simplify the pipeline to raw textile to end user. Give people something todo in the evening but passively consume other’s emotional dynamism via TV, YouTube and TikTok. We make it cheap in fiat dollars to use up a shit ton of resources on enriched middlemen roleplaying American civic life. It’s gonna cost a lot because their buying power isn’t going to get deflated, that’s for sure. Keep public access to commodities mired in legal obligations of recent history, yet more roleplay in accordance with tradition, which tons of money is put into reminding us we must obey. We’re such a wacky culture of willful ignorant while proclaiming to be data driven and science minded.
greedo 3y ago
How do you explain the success of American Giant? They use US grown cotton, make all their clothes in the US. Granted, you're not going to be able to buy a $5 t-shirt from them, but a $40 t-shirt that doesn't rely on crappy labor practices seems like something people have gotten behind. Same with New Balance. Their shoes compete with Nike made in Asia, and are MIUSA. We've just become addicted to cheap crap shoveled into Walmart and Amazon.

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I mean if of course it’s not coming back. Clothing has a huge labor component and labor is expensive in the USA. Way cheaper to pay 1$ a day than 20$ an hour.

by pg938hkd 3y ago

BarryPark 3y ago
Hypernormalizing human agency in terms of fiat economics is political propaganda to maintain contemporary economic tradition where wealth management middleman create the pipeline of raw textile to product in store shelf. We should greatly simplify the pipeline to raw textile to end user. Give people something todo in the evening but passively consume other’s emotional dynamism via TV, YouTube and TikTok. We make it cheap in fiat dollars to use up a shit ton of resources on enriched middlemen roleplaying American civic life. It’s gonna cost a lot because their buying power isn’t going to get deflated, that’s for sure. Keep public access to commodities mired in legal obligations of recent history, yet more roleplay in accordance with tradition, which tons of money is put into reminding us we must obey. We’re such a wacky culture of willful ignorant while proclaiming to be data driven and science minded.
greedo 3y ago
How do you explain the success of American Giant? They use US grown cotton, make all their clothes in the US. Granted, you're not going to be able to buy a $5 t-shirt from them, but a $40 t-shirt that doesn't rely on crappy labor practices seems like something people have gotten behind. Same with New Balance. Their shoes compete with Nike made in Asia, and are MIUSA. We've just become addicted to cheap crap shoveled into Walmart and Amazon.