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Gender is not the problem. I think this is a unfortunate mix-up. Furniture (products of woodwork) and fashion are super cheap nowadays, so the rent of mending
by ianbooker 8y ago
Gender is not the problem. I think this is a unfortunate mix-up.
Furniture (products of woodwork) and fashion are super cheap nowadays, so the rent of mending is diminished. I can spend 20 minutes on fixing a shirt before it is financially rational to just buy a new one.
Cars and some other things are just very complicated thanks to closed and obscured software.
My girlfriend just recently fixed our LP player (both 25 years old ;) ), I tried to fix a 5 year old CD player .. not a chance.
- notduncansmith 8y ago> I can spend 20 minutes on fixing a shirt before it is financially rational to just buy a new one. If it were produced from sustainable materials and labor, and you had to pay the rent for the landfill space it occupies until it biodegrades, and you made an average income, the cost would work out in favor of mending. Disposable goods are a high rent that we pay almost exclusively to the mega-rich and subsidize for ourselves by externalizing much of the cost onto underrepresented labor groups, like developing markets and future generations that will inherit our landfills.
- thereisnospork 8y agoI think your drastically overestimating the cost of landfill space, and t-shirts. A middle class american's time is worth at least 20$/hr, a t-shirt costs $2 to make from scratch in a factory and the landfill volume of that shirt might round up to a penny. Disposable goods are disposable because people tend to act rationally about time and costs.