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Does your dream trend toward paying less for clothing which cost 1-10 EUR to produce or paying 100-200 EUR for clothing for which people were paid reasonably to
by lucideer 5y ago
Does your dream trend toward paying less for clothing which cost 1-10 EUR to produce or paying 100-200 EUR for clothing for which people were paid reasonably to produce?
There's plenty of the latter out there if you're looking for it[0].
[0] https://www.fairwear.org/programmes/living-wage https://www.fairwear.org/programmes/living-wage
- durnygbur 5y agoDunno... maybe 2-3x markup at most? Obviously removing the child and quasi slave labour from the production process.
- esyir 5y agoI read his comment as "I hate the 1000% markup on clothing"
- lucideer 5y agoOh I do too. But there's two separate approaches for people who hate that markup: lowering the markup or increasing the production cost. Given current industry standards, I think the second approach is reasonable. It's also very easy to do, if you can afford to.
- ckdarby 5y agoBoth, remove human labor in the process of making clothes altogether and have it produced cheaper.
- altacc 5y agoMost clothes are complex items and the manufacture of them is very unlikely to ever be fully automated within a reasonable time frame (such as our lifetimes). People will always be a part of the process. Many tasks are just too expensive to automate vs a cheap labourer. Clothes should be like many other things: cost more, have better quality, longer lifespans and have less negative impact on those who produce them and the environment where they are produced & recycled.