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However, we should use our intelligence to find ways to curb the extent to which clothing has become an obsession, becaue the clothing industry is unsustainable
by vouaobrasil 2y ago
However, we should use our intelligence to find ways to curb the extent to which clothing has become an obsession, becaue the clothing industry is unsustainable and creates enormous amounts of waste and pollution. With our big brains, surely we can find ways to differetiate and display our styles without so much waste? Or perhaps we should just go back to trying to make AI think like us...
- snowwrestler 2y agoPicking clothes that make us look good, and frequently replacing our clothes, are really two quite different things. You don’t have to do the latter to achieve the former.
- Clamchop 2y agoYou could say that being green, or appearing to be, is in fashion.
- makeitdouble 2y agoAs the same pattern arises in every domain, I don't see it as an issue with clothing in particular. We have depleted environmental resources and polluted with no bound in every field that didn't have extreme regulation. I don't think we're obsessed over almonds and yet their production is wastingso much water in critical regions. Right now it's cheaper to buy a new trouser than to have it repair by a local craftsman, and the fashion trends you are observing are also engineered and managed at an industry level, down to the color they'll want to push the next year. TBH he answer could simply be regulation and bake the externalities in the price of the clothes. Some people will still change wardrobe every 3 months, but most won't have that luxury, and our views will adapt to that new reality.