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No, because the alternative is customers going to another company for a similar product. Customers don’t buy jackets they don’t need, so taking Patagonia off th
by btmiller 4y ago
No, because the alternative is customers going to another company for a similar product. Customers don’t buy jackets they don’t need, so taking Patagonia off the table would in fact probably increase the overall impact to the environment since they’re the best in the market. Analogy: imagine in Tesla stopped production tomorrow. Would people stop buying cars?
- Bakary 4y agoBut people want to prematurely replace their current items when they hear about something cooler all the time. In fact, this might be particularly acute with products like Teslas that function in some ways like a semi-Veblen good.