You mention many enormous improvements: > with good maintenance So modernity has eliminated my need to spend time looking after clothes? That is a big win. No

You mention many enormous improvements: > with good maintenance So modernity has eliminated my need to spend time looking after clothes? That is a big win. Not having to put time into repair and maintenance is a huge improvement. It has eliminated my need to be careful with my clothes? That is also a huge win. My grandmother used to spend hours at a time repairing socks. It is a huge win that nobody knows how to do that anymore, as time has value. > Now we have can have hundreds of shirts for that same money Even if we accept the decades of life for an old shirt, you only need tens of shirts to match its lifetime, so this is an order of magnitude reduction in cost. > are made by people who can't afford to buy them in a country we've never seen So? Plenty of employees cannot afford what their employer produces. And it is a step up from where they were before. We freed up more capable people in our own country to do more productive things than made clothing. You are right on the environmental part. > And, for all that, we still have people who don't have enough fucking clothing. Where would that be? Even the poorer African countries are chaffing at how much clothing is being dumped there. So the main loser is the environment. As a customer, I am otherwise a tremendous winner. And when AI takes over most mundane art, like animating instructional videos or making logos, I will also be a tremendous winner.