Re:How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
by 0xffff2 on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:57PM
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How do you arrive at those numbers? If clothes cost 10x what they do today but fabric costs didn't change, I'd most certainly be sewing nearly all my own clothes. Give that I'm a software engineer in the bay area, this strongly suggests to me that 10x is too high.
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Re:How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
by jacobush on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:17PM
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Fabric is also way too cheap.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/dyeing-text...
Re:How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
by omnimus on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:47PM
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I closely know people working for some high end brands. It is common knowledge. A dirty secret. The worst part is most of them dont give a fuck. Its just money grabbing.
Unfortunately you also have no chance of knowing if your 1500usd hoodie was made well or by kid payed 12usd week.
Its hard to expect other outcome since many brands are regular startups with investors. There are few monopoly megacorps like LVMH and Kering that act much like Facebooks and Googles and just squeeze anything for their investors and demolish/buy competition.