Unfortunately, I don't think the last sentence holds if one looks beyond money. Everyone ends up paying for it eventually, in the form of the resources that wen

Unfortunately, I don't think the last sentence holds if one looks beyond money. Everyone ends up paying for it eventually, in the form of the resources that went into growing the cotton, burning the fuel for electricity and transportation, etc, just to take the end product very nearly directly into the trash heap. It's shameful.