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Crapification of stuff is good, you don't need a pair of jeans that lasts 400 years that you pass down to your grandchildren and most people don't want to save
by tommy5dollar 5y ago
Crapification of stuff is good, you don't need a pair of jeans that lasts 400 years that you pass down to your grandchildren and most people don't want to save up for years (or take out financial products) to "invest" in furniture. The previous high quality of goods was a bug, not a feature.
- andrepd 5y agoI can't believe I'm reading on this website, when the last drum of oil has been burnt shipping fast fashion and useless plastic junk across the world and the air is too thick with smoke to breathe, at least we'll know it was all for the best, for we got to swap jeans every 3 months rather than every 5 years.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoWhen you consider that every pair of jeans, crappy or good, has a hidden cost of several gallons of burned diesel, several square meters of razed wildlands, and many kilos of natural resources that needed to be collected, processed, transported, reprocessed, re-transported, several times over, it's hard to call that a feature. Think about all the cotton, then thread, then cloth, plus dye, plus metal, plus other thread for putting it together, all the transportation and machinery, all the manual labor in poor conditions, and so on, which go into that cheap pair of jeans. Now, consider that every time you buy a pair, you're voting for more of that to happen. Now, consider the environmental and habitat cost to us and the rest of the world contained in that one "cheap" pair of jeans. I would not call that a feature.