Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed

Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by wcoenen on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:38PM (#24103139)

> We have hundreds millions of people basically teleporting between continents every day

That's hyperbole. In 2019 there were 4.5 billion passengers boarding a flight[1]. Divide by 365 days and you get on the order of 10 million per day, most of which will not be intercontinental.

I don't disagree about the amount of air travel nowadays facilitating pandemics, just wanted to get the numbers straight.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/564717/airline-industry-...

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Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by tomglynch on Sunday August 09, 2020 @06:46PM (#24103605)

You are arguing a very minor point.

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Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by wcoenen on Monday August 10, 2020 @03:13PM (#24112903)

I appreciate the feedback, it feels better than getting only downvotes. I thought it was an important point because the number was off by at least an order of magnitude, maybe two. But I can see how my response might have been seen as pedantic.

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