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> 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, a
by 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.