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Cheap clothing is a civilizational achievement and good for human welfare. So carbon emissions are bad, but then we should price carbon and not micromanage clo
by Sol- 8mo ago
Cheap clothing is a civilizational achievement and good for human welfare.
So carbon emissions are bad, but then we should price carbon and not micromanage clothing inventory.
- nicbou 8mo agoClothing everyone is an achievement, but fast fashion is overshooting that target. A bit like feeding everyone vs. having an obesity crisis.
- yrcyrc 8mo agoPerfectly summed up
- Gigachad 8mo agoPolyester has been a disaster for clothing. I'd love to see countries come up with a plan to cut down on the amounts of plastic crap being pumped out.
- fy20 8mo agoThere is a brand in my country that I liken to a physical Shein. The clothes are a similar style, and basically everything is polyester. When I walk into it, it smells like a carpet store.
- 1718627440 8mo agoGetting common goods less expensive is good, making them too cheap is not. Imagine you are optimizing a math model, but nothing actually has prices. You just get a garbage point as optimum. You need to have scarcity, so that a system that optimizes the allocation of scarce goods actually works.
- 8note 8mo agois it actually? i think its made people less independent than when we could maintain and produce our own textiles, and treat them well. Now we're dependent on markets and slave labour