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No one forces anyone to buy these clothes, from these brands. Shein is a symptom. The illness - and fault - is cultural. Blaming a symptom for being the proble

No one forces anyone to buy these clothes, from these brands. Shein is a symptom. The illness - and fault - is cultural. Blaming a symptom for being the problem is foolish and counter-productive. It might be catchy at the sociopolitical level, but getting distracted and giving the actual problem a free pass only helps to normalize it.

anticorporate 2y ago
No one forces anyone to serve this market. No one forces governments to allow these kinds of companies to operate their business this way legally. I agree there is a cultural component here, but there is a cultural component behind many things that we have decided are a net negative for society and used policy to curtail.
- chiefalchemist 2y ago
  It might be fashionable to play pick on China, but that's all this is. There are plenty of things this is a symptom of. It's a waste of attention and resource to play it safe and comfortable and attack a symptom, pretend we're actually accomplishing something, and then moving on to the next false target. That's *not* how we build a better world. If we want our elected official to lead then we need to stop accepting their half-ass-ery. This persistent and normalized half-ass-ery is why... well... um... so much of our world is half-ass or worse. Put another way, America can't keep disproportionately sucking up the world's resources and then play the "Damn those Chinese" card. p.s. "No one forces anyone to serve this market" I presume you realize how absurd that statement is. The culture creates a market and... no one should serve it? What is that, Bidenomics? Sorry, I'm done buying into the ruse.
- yunohn 2y ago
  You’re right. The Western culture of outsourcing all your labor, emissions and garbage and acting high and mighty about it. The whole article is about Americans buying too much from SHEIN. How did you spin it into Sinophobia?

anticorporate 2y ago

No one forces anyone to serve this market. No one forces governments to allow these kinds of companies to operate their business this way legally. I agree there is a cultural component here, but there is a cultural component behind many things that we have decided are a net negative for society and used policy to curtail.

chiefalchemist 2y ago
It might be fashionable to play pick on China, but that's all this is. There are plenty of things this is a symptom of. It's a waste of attention and resource to play it safe and comfortable and attack a symptom, pretend we're actually accomplishing something, and then moving on to the next false target. That's *not* how we build a better world. If we want our elected official to lead then we need to stop accepting their half-ass-ery. This persistent and normalized half-ass-ery is why... well... um... so much of our world is half-ass or worse. Put another way, America can't keep disproportionately sucking up the world's resources and then play the "Damn those Chinese" card. p.s. "No one forces anyone to serve this market" I presume you realize how absurd that statement is. The culture creates a market and... no one should serve it? What is that, Bidenomics? Sorry, I'm done buying into the ruse.
yunohn 2y ago
You’re right. The Western culture of outsourcing all your labor, emissions and garbage and acting high and mighty about it. The whole article is about Americans buying too much from SHEIN. How did you spin it into Sinophobia?