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Oh ok, I was wrong. Working people should spend more of their paychecks on boots to prevent fires in Bangladeshi factories, and then it will be more comfortabl
by buescher 4y ago
Oh ok, I was wrong. Working people should spend more of their paychecks on boots to prevent fires in Bangladeshi factories, and then it will be more comfortable walking to work because they can't afford a car. And no shopping in your utopia either.
- mschuster91 4y agoWorking class people should have larger paychecks so that they can afford proper clothing. Look up charts for wage development and minimum wage on one side, and charts for CEO pay and gini coefficients (wealth distribution) on the other, over the last 50 years. There you have the answer why a working class person can only afford crap shoes and beater cars.
- buescher 4y agoBut then they'll go shopping and burn more fossil fuels and buy more things that set Bangladeshi factories on fire! And throw their old things in trash incinerators! Shouldn't they just have to eat their old boots when they can't be resoled any more? By the way, where do you think new soles come from? The boot theory is nonsense that at best only applies at a pretty narrow range of consumer goods - stuff that is barely fit for purpose vs stuff that is. Cars are a great example because you pretty much can't save money spending more up front on one new car than on another new car, and there isn't even that big a difference in TCO between a new car and a comparable five-year-old car. Working class people in the USA buy beater trucks to save over buying a new truck, which is a different trade, mostly because trucks are a working class Veblen good. They don't want to be seen in a Corolla.