Eh, hard disagree. When I was in high school in a US suburb, if you wanted a pair of jeans, you had to take an hour out of your day, get in your polluting car,

Eh, hard disagree. When I was in high school in a US suburb, if you wanted a pair of jeans, you had to take an hour out of your day, get in your polluting car, drive to the mall, go to Old Navy or someplace staffed by real human beings at all times (and there were thousands of these places stores selling the same live cookie-cutter experience staffed by live people). Now, the postal service does more work and more clothes get destroyed but how many person-hours does it take for society to bring you a pair of jeans? How many pollution-units? Surely less than it took when everyone had to drive to central place and do a transaction with a person?