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They need to buy specialist equipment to do that, and it sounds like they can't afford it?
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
They need to buy specialist equipment to do that, and it sounds like they can't afford it?
- rKarpinski 3y agoIsn't this where capitalism comes in and someone with money steps in to take a chunk out of literally "the richest person in the world's" margin.
- hiddencost 3y agoThat is not the goal of capitalism.
- dan-robertson 3y agoWhat specialist equipment? Incas managed to make fabric out of the wool without advanced equipment. I think garments are still made (by hand) from the wool around the regions where the animals live, though I assume they aren’t as consistent as what you get from Loro Piana, and maybe they aren’t exported (if I remember correctly, this is to try to allow those goods to be used by locals in traditional ways, rather than being made for export, though I’m not confident in that claim)
- alexchamberlain 3y agoIn the article, it states that the fibers are shorter and thinner (13 microns) than other wools, which gives them the desirable properties, but also makes them very hard to spin into a wool. Admittedly, I had assumed spinning by hand wouldn't scale to the level that the comment above intended.
- kwanbix 3y agoThat is what the government should do. Buy it for them.
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